It's funny how the people of Germany think of this in exactly the same way you describe, except for that last part. They replace that by "country X will suck up

It's funny how the people of Germany think of this in exactly the same way you describe, except for that last part. They replace that by "country X will suck up most of the economic benefit". Meanwhile the policies the EU makes are created by politicians from each of the EU member states. Some of them being originally proposed by politicians from the very countries whose citizens decry them the most. It's fun to draw parallels to "the federal government sucks for reason X" in the US. Truly poetic to watch.