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Pascal Clérotte's avatar

25 million is still small potatoes though, which shows how cheap these people are. Just to give a benchmark, the 2009 EU election observation mission to Afghanistan costed over 30 million for 3 months.

Yet, the funds are funneled in already very pro-EE institutions, which are the prime recruiting ground for its high-ranking civil service. They are copying again the US system...

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Kojo's avatar
Sep 17Edited

Academic grants are not big, but they go a long way, because the underlying cost of research work in social sciences is not hight. For 25 million Euro you are talking about direct influence over many hundreds of senior academics and researchers, who in turn infleunce others. And influence students. And infuence the media in a completely hidden way.

And that is just ONE program, not the entire unverse of these types of grants.

This is bigger than you think.

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CocotteMinute's avatar

Exactly ! How many of these ”little 25 millions” are disseminated, each producing ”little-rivers effects” ? This one is merely one little facet of a huge underground system.

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Pascal Clérotte's avatar

I am not saying that its has no impact. I am saying that 25 million is little compared to the several hundred million of US indirect public and direct private funding of European universities. Yet, it is a circuitous and unacceptable way to propagandize membres states and population, and most likely illegal btw.

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Jazzme's avatar

The EU promotes itself....isn't that something we all do?????? It's extestential for one's well being and very existence. Of course one could change self to a better self. Let's make Thomas help us make that decision or maybe we can decide for ourselves.

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Fuchs's avatar

Oh wow the EU supports pro-EU narratives, what a discover you sad retarded cunt.

MCC is btw financed from money stolen from Hungarian public under PM Orbán's aegis; their money comes from dividents of a large stock package originally owned by the State but then handed over to MCC.

Next year when we kick Orbán out we will take back this money, so don't count on it for long, loser.

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Ida's avatar

Great article!

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Kojo's avatar

Well done - it's important that these kind of programmes are brought to light .

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Steven D Grumbine's avatar

Cultural hegemony is a thing

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