: Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate

Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate

An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.

The group of 39 politicians referred to recent investigations that revealed countries such as Italy, Greece, Hungary, and Spain have funnelled millions of taxpayer euros at a time to help support commercial spyware-makers’ finances.

They wrote: "According to these findings, entities such as Intellexa, Cy4Gate, Verint and Cognyte – whose technologies have been linked to unlawful surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders and political actors in the EU, as well as in third countries with dreadful human rights records – have benefitted from public financing, including EU programmes.

  • lowleekun@ani.socialEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Because our system already is on its death bed and politicians don’t know anything else but to uphold the status quo. They can absolutely not have people revolting this time around because what would happen to all the greedy, rich and powerful people? Who knows but they fear that a lot. Thats why we try to speed run more police, more military and more surveilance.

    Freedom of opinion and press is under attack for longer than we like do admit. I think a good hard look at how the war on Gaza was covered should give an idea how most of our media simply agrees to narrate what they are supposed to.

    And to be honest, not enough people see it coming. They don’t fear chat control, as they don’t have anything to hide…