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It mostly funds projects:

> Approximately 94% of the EU budget funds programmes and projects both within member states and outside the EU. Less than 7% of the budget is used for administrative costs, and less than 3% is spent on EU civil servants' salaries.

From [0], see also [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#P...

[1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisat...



That's a tautology, the spending for every government will primarily go on "programmes and projects".




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