I don't think that's a sustainable model. Also most of those fines goes into filling the gaps in budgets related to recurring costs of maintaining the bureaucratic behemoth rather than funding research or innovation.

The US was lucky to have Musk and DOGE fix that bureaucratic behemoth, if only the EU had the same luck.

How long have you been working inside the behemoth? Can you tell us more about the inner workings, where the money goes, how much, etc?