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Italy generally pays ~3-4 billion euros more into the EU budget than it receives from the EU. Ireland is much more of a mooch than Italy

https://english.eu.dk/en/faq/net-contribution

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Ireland is, as of 2016, a net contributor to the EU; this year the country is expecting to contribute 2.7bn€

Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ireland-s-contri...

That chart is a very welcome contribution to this discussion... but man is it terribly designed at both the web-design level and the data-presentation level.

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