{"id":594499,"date":"2025-11-26T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594499\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:12:14","slug":"germany-remains-eus-top-net-contributor-despite-economic-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594499\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany remains EU\u2019s top net contributor despite economic slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Germany remained the European Union\u2019s largest net contributor in 2024, even as its economy struggles. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s largest economy paid \u20ac13.1 billion ($15.09 billion) more into EU coffers than it received last year. However, net contributions have been declining in recent years, down from \u20ac19.7 billion in 2022 and \u20ac17.4 billion in 2023, reflecting <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/lufthansa-joins-air-france-klm-in-race-for-tap-air-portugal-stake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany\u2019<\/a>s ongoing economic slowdown, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany remained the European Union\u2019s largest net contributor in 2024, even as its economy struggles. Europe\u2019s largest economy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1699,1824,186943],"class_list":{"0":"post-594499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-top-net-contributor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}