Donald Trump’s administration is planning to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, part of a package of at least $25 million for civil society groups working on conservative causes in the region, according to four people familiar with the funding.
The grants risk deepening tensions between the Trump administration and European governments, some of which have already accused Washington of interfering in their domestic politics.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) says the funding is meant to strengthen transatlantic ties and promote free speech. It comes as European countries prepare for elections over the next couple of years, and as the Trump administration openly backs Europe’s populist right-wing and far-right parties.
They might have already been there, but American oligarchs like Elon, and now the US government pouring money into them is certainly enabling them. They may not be an American import, but they’re being American grown.
Yes but not by that much, they are already swimming in money rganks to Russia and some right extreme European oligarchs. 4mio from the US regime are pocket money for them.
You’re ignoring the impacts of European oligarchs here. Ultimately in a modern democracy most funding for a political movement will have to be homegrown or it’s never going to be enough to hit critical mass. If European oligarchs didn’t want fascism it’d have never gotten as far as it has.