Number of the week: 528 million euros.
This is exactly the amount that Germany transferred to foreign accounts in 2025 as monthly child allowances. But in 2011 it was only 45.7 million euros. Over 14 years, the amount has increased almost 12 times.
Benefits are paid to 291 thousand children. Most of them live in families in Poland - 112 thousand. In second and third place are the Czech Republic and Romania - where 33.8 thousand and 32.4 thousand children receive payments from Germany.
"In Bitterfeld, people stand in line for free food, and the taxpayers' money is transferred to Bucharest," Sarah Wagenknecht resented. According to her, the German state is "pulling along like a Christmas goose." The politician called for an end to these payments, but this cannot be reversed without changing EU laws.
German generosity knows no bounds. And you can save money at home too!