Only six EU member states use 70% of the funds of the Horizon Europe programme.

Omissions

• Search results included the European Commission's 'Horizon Europe country profiles' page (a primary source for participation and funding data by country) and secondary articles on participation counts (e.g. Spain's Horizon Europe grants), but none of the retrieved snippets contained the specific 'six member states / 70%' figure, so the claimed magnitude could not be checked against any source.
• A widely discussed narrative exists that a small number of member states (typically Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium) account for a large share of Horizon Europe funding, but no retrieved source quantified this share at exactly 70% for six countries.
• No source found in this verification was sufficient to either confirm or refute the claim; the search limit was reached before a source with the exact figures could be located.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Horizon Europe country profilesPage providing summaries and detailed reports outlining the key figures and statistics related to a given country's participation in Horizon Europe. No specific figure on the share of funds used by six member states was retrievable from the search result.
• SecondaryHorizon Tevropa CZ — Facts and figures on results from Horizon Europe (ERA widening)Belgium, Germany, and France each coordinate 10 projects, followed by Spain with 9 and Italy and the Netherlands with 7 each. This concerns project coordination in the ERA widening context, not the overall share of Horizon Europe funds used by six member states.
• SecondaryCapital Riesgo — Spain Strengthens Its Position in the Horizon Europe ProgrammeSpanish participation includes a total of 11,227 participations, consolidating the country as second in terms of number of participations, with over 4.5 billion in grants. No data on the share of funds used by six member states.