And this 26 Billion, is this 'netto' or 'bruto' ?
(in 2019) https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contrib...
(in 2017) https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...
My estimation is that my personal contribution to Europe should be between 500 € to 2000 € a year.
Sure, not all money is wasted, hopefully, but still if you accumulate all bullshit jobs and reports like this one over a year, this is still a shit load of money that you be put in better usage.
Note: I don't say that all europe jobs and reports are bullshits, are the opposite, a lot of them are quite good, and most of the time of better usage and quality than european national governments in my opinion.
France 'contributed' ~ € 7.5 Billon netto to the EU.
Which is something totally different than € 26 Billion. And it still isn't your money.
Here is a link in French, but at least you will have an evolution graph with 2021:
https://www.ifrap.org/europe-et-international/contribution-d...
The other netto of the other link is not "justified", not official documents, but let's suppose it is correct, and that it evolved in proportion, we would be at least, as of today, at 11 Billions NET.
That is still quite a number.
But you don't stop repeating that it is not my money as a French tax payer, can you explicit what you mean? because so far you just say that "as a fact" and it does not make any sense!
It is a shitload of money in my opinion.
There are around 70 millions inhabitants in France, only around 18% of households pay income tax. But, in fact, only 10% of the households are contributing for around 70% of the income tax.