The EU take your money, and then tell you what attitudes and what political direction you must go. Or they threaten to stop giving you your own money back. (or the money of the countries that DO pay in)
So countries that dont toe the line, and vote correctly, get threatened. So socialist, globalist, open borders, EU "values" are a good vote. But countries that do not agree are a "bad" vote. How very democratic!
And yes possibly italy next. Hungary, poland, and the fiscally careful countries are already in disagreement. And now sweden has turned into a massive violent centre for rape etc even they are closing borders and have a new right wing government. But thats voting "incorrectly"... So these all get threatened with funding cuts. They will refuse them their own money back! This crap is why we voted to get the hell out of your new soviet style socialist superstate club. We will not be the last.
After many years of EU loving governments we just now have a tax reduction, true conservative one. We are going back to low legislation, free market capitalism once again. And dumping all the bullshit regulations that was the EU. 10 years from now we will be a much richer country again.