Sure, but the final destination of the money flow is the same ICANN, which apparently need to give "Accreditations"/affiliation to the franchise. I remind you that the infrastructure is 100% European, this is purely idiotic from the European side.

In general icann fees are fairly small fraction of the overall cost of a domain, most of the money ends to registrars and registrys.

That´s is not the point. The monopoly is the whole point. Would you pay tax to India or China because the sunlight shines in your country every day? Who owns the sun!

You are perfectly free to run your own root servers

Don´t you worry about it, We already do. That do not solve the bigger issue yet, but the alert was sent, so be happy :)