Observations

We knew, when we saw the press release from the EU Commission yesterday, that if we investigated this EU fund, we would find that once again the UK had paid into a fund for years and yet received a pittance back.

Given that Facts4EU.Org is not a recipient of EU funding – nor is ever likely to be – we could only look at just part of the EU’s ‘Media’ programme with the limited time and resource we had available – that of the production of individual films. The EU’s ‘Creative Europe’ programme includes funds for other activities but we chose to investigate funding for films, as almost all readers watch these.

Remainers are welcome to spend days poring over the 250,000+ items of data in the spreadsheets we eventually found – be our guest. We had to choose so we picked movies. We doubt the numbers will be substantially different in other categories.

Brexit is not "done" and the challenges mount

Unfortunately some people now think Brexit is "done" and not surprisingly the whole Covid thing has hit the level of donations we receive, which were already less than we needed to survive. We are most grateful to readers who have donated in recent days, but we badly need more readers to do the same. 10 readers donating £500 per month, or 50 readers donating £100 per month, or 1000 readers donating £5 per month - on top of the one-off donations and monthly donations we currently receive, this would just about keep us going.

Sadly, the challenges of seeing Brexit through are not the only concerns we face. Freedom of expression and the basic princples of democratic accountability are under attack as we we have never seen before. We have far more to do in researching, publishing, campaigning and lobbying Parliament than we have in terms of the financial resources to fulfil these tasks. We rely 100% on public donations from readers like you. Unlike the Remain/Rejoin camp, we do not have foreign billionaires to subsidise our work.

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