I'm totally with you, here. We're already paying the most into EU, and i'm fine to have that money used for development. But most countries that draw that money out, do that because they handle the money badly. At that point we have 3 options.

1)Pay up and be screwed over by countries taking the money and doing shit with it

2)Don't pay and be the bad one for leaving fellow countries hanging

3)Lend money with the hook, that you NEED to improve. We did that with greece and were immediately told off for trying to bully sovereign countries in their ways.

Can't win, whatever you do