{"id":208394,"date":"2025-09-18T22:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=208394"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:10:41","slug":"the-eu-paid-e1-billion-to-the-media-here-is-the-list-of-journalists-and-fact-checkers-and-how-much-they-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-eu-paid-e1-billion-to-the-media-here-is-the-list-of-journalists-and-fact-checkers-and-how-much-they-received\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU paid \u20ac1 billion to the media: Here is the list of journalists and fact-checkers and how much they received"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leadership of the European Union (EU) is funding media to promote the Brussels agenda, reveals a report<\/a> by the European think tank MCC Brussels<\/em> entitled: The Media Machine of Brussels: Financing European Media and Shaping Public Discourse<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The EU channels huge amounts of public money into media projects across Europe and beyond \u2013 amounting to almost \u20ac80 million a year, or almost \u20ac1 billion over the past decade \u2013 often with the explicit aim of promoting pro-European policies.<\/p>\n

This is probably an underestimate: In addition to the funding EU media receive directly from the European Commission (\u20ac50 million per year) and the European Parliament (\u20ac10 million per year), funds also go to non-EU countries. Ukraine alone was allocated \u20ac10 million in 2025.<\/p>\n

The report focuses exclusively on official EU media funding programs and does not include indirect funding channels such as advertising and communication contracts awarded to marketing firms that channel funds to major media outlets.<\/p>\n

Financing European media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the Journalist Partnerships<\/em> program alone (budget: up to 50 million euros), the EU manages a large ecosystem of \u201ccooperation<\/em>\u201d with media projects: from pro-European advertising campaigns and \u201cinvestigative journalism<\/em>\u201d to large-scale programs to combat \u201cfake news<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of particular note is the close role of public broadcasters. The report speaks of a \u201csemi-structural interrelationship between EU institutions and public media networks<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

EU-funded media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a list of EU-funded media organisations, agencies and media projects included in the report, systematically arranged by country, with the respective funding amounts (where indicated):<\/p>\n

Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n