The most annoying kind of headline: " #EU membership cost Finland X euros per resident in 2025". (Text proceeds to explain that the so-called "net contributions" have nothing to do with benefits and costs.)
The EC should kill such figures, instead report the profits from shared functions.
As a starting point, estimate the public sector wages saved by not doing the EU agencies' work 27 times over. The UK learnt it the hard way, hiring 100k extra civil servants.
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/article/civil-service-headcount-rises-ons-statistics-eighth-year-row
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