https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21824/the-eu-elites-part-iii
The report shows how the European Commission – the unelected executive branch of the European Union – is using European taxpayer money “to promote its political agenda under the guise of advancing ‘EU values’.” In short, the EU is funding NGOs and think-tanks to spread its own propaganda. — The EU’s Propaganda Machine: How the EU funds NGOs to promote itself, brussels.mcc.hu , February 12, 2025
The EU Commission funded more than 4,400 NGOS between 2014 and 2023, but more than 40% of the total sum given to NGOS, or 3.3 billion euros, went to just 30 organizations, making it look,” in the words of the MCC think-tank. “more like a cartel
“These bureaucracies are funding NGOs not to feed hungry people or to advance a broadly agreed upon social agenda. It’s to protect their own interests and to feather their own nests.” — Peter Schweizer, author and US investigative journalist, YouTube, February 19, 2025
“The reality is otherwise: It’s more like an extortion model, it’s more like the mafia, when the mafia shows up at a corner grocery store in America and says you might want to take out insurance with us, because if you don’t your shop might actually burn down. Well, in this scenario…. the government and government officials in the United States and also in Europe threaten and pressure corporations, people who do not share their political views…” — Peter Schweizer, author and US investigative journalist, YouTube, February 19, 2025
That is just the NGOs. The EU Commission also funds an unknown number of other projects. Perhaps the most notable among them, given the enormous amounts of money diverted for it, was the funding of the terrorist entities in the West Bank and Gaza. The EU routinely boasts of being the largest provider of foreign aid to the Palestinians, although it is highly unclear how this, in any way, is in the interest of Europe’s taxpayers.
The European Union is the biggest provider of external assistance to the Palestinians which amounts to indicatively almost €1.2 billion for 2021-2024 under the European Joint Strategy,” the EU boasted in December 2023, just months after the October 7 massacre by Hamas of 1,200 innocent people in Israel.
Then there are all the cases of foreign influence operations in the EU: Qatargate, Huaweigate, and the corruption scandal of Pfizergate. There is the extreme lack of transparency within the European Union and its severely undemocratic decision-making processes, lack of transparency and no mechanism for walking away.
In April, a group of European Parliamentarians, known as the Patriots group, inspired by the US, actually proposed a “DOGE for Europe” at the European Parliament. The initiative, however, also known as TRAC (Transparency, Responsibility, and Anti-Corruption) is facing stark opposition from the mainstream parties in the European Parliament. Maybe they have a lot to hide?
The idea of a European DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] to clean up the waste and fraud that goes on with EU taxpayer money is slowly spreading in Europe, but more than overdue. Most Europeans are completely unaware of the madness of EU spending on useless, batty projects, including NGOs that have turned out to be a way for many of the EU’s “elites” to receive nice kickbacks.
In February 2025, MCC Brussels, a European think-tank, published a bombshell report, The EU’s Propaganda Machine: How the EU funds NGOs to promote itself. The report shows how the European Commission – the unelected executive branch of the European Union – is using European taxpayer money “to promote its political agenda under the guise of advancing ‘EU values’.” In short, the EU is funding NGOs and think-tanks to spread its own propaganda.
