Comment by graemep

Full details here: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Co...

Also, not all EU states are ESA member states.

Canada is on the ESA governing council, and takes part in projects.

In the context of Eu grants being discussed in this thread, its financing arrangements are very different from those, so its irrelevant to discussing the effectiveness or not of those.