[rs_rs_rs_rs_rs]

Comparison does not work, EU does very little compared to what the US/China administrations do, you'll have to add the cost of all the countries administration too.

[rich_sasha]

The claim was that the EU is a money grab for Brussels time wasters. The cost of the EU bureaucracy is minimal.

What the member states spend, and if they do it well etc. is a totally separate question.