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Data Non-EU countries receive more funding from European Innovation Fund than 2/3 of EU countries combined

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 2d ago edited 2d ago

Come on now folks! That genocide is not going to fund itself, now is it?

Edit: Downvote away, and enjoy the dead  children you're supporting the murder of. It's expected at this point, sure they're only little brown Arabs. It's not like they're actual human beings or anything. 

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u/ComprehensiveLaw1012 2d ago

lol crash out.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 2d ago

Nah, just not a fan of funding genocide. As much as that apparently disgusts a lot more Europeans than one would expect. 

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u/ComprehensiveLaw1012 2d ago

You should probably take a second to understand what the EIF is and how it works: https://www.catf.us/2023/12/why-the-eu-innovation-fund-matters-for-net-zero-technology-funding/

Or keep crashing out as you are. Up to you.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 2d ago

Well ahead of you there. 

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-000180_EN.html

 Since 7 October 2024, the EU has continued to allocate funds to Israeli defence companies through its Horizon Europe programme. This includes Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s largest aerospace and defence company, which, since 7 October, has received funds for some of its dual-use projects[3].

This is despite the fact that Horizon Europe funding must comply with human rights standards, international law and EU treaties, which prohibit the funding of ‘expenses arising from operations with military or defence implications’.

We know that programmes funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme prior to 7 October are now actively being used in Israel’s military activities in Gaza. This includes the Skylord drone programme, which is now being used by the Israel Defense Forces in its missions in Gaza[4].

But go ahead and keep pretending that's not the case. Sure you will anyway. 

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u/ComprehensiveLaw1012 2d ago

lol you linking to a submitted question in Parliament is absolutely peak.

Israel has paid €1.7B to be included in the program - let’s start there. Sending grant money for a program to defend undersea cables for example, does not “fund genocide”, even when that money goes to say Elbit. That is just a collection of words you people parrot by nothing other than reflex. That type of funding represents a tiny fraction of the total money in question anyway - grants for carbon capture research to an Israeli university has nothing to do with “genocide”, it’s just a word you use.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Ireland 2d ago

It's not a question I posted but am answer, and as stated in it there are standards within it that Israel are not even trying ot give the impression of maintaining. Because they know nothing will happen as they have the "unconditional" support of Ursula von der Leyen and the EU regardless. 

And because of this, it is assisting with the funding of a genocide, even if you don't like that. 

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u/ComprehensiveLaw1012 2d ago

Your link states it’s a question, and then ends with the question. I think you need to read your own link lol.

You addressed nothing of what I said, and only repeated your empty platitude of “funding genocide” because ultimately you know how feeble your position is. Not interesting at all.