Islamism and antisemitism: Paris will ask Brussels to “strengthen control” of funding

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May 19, 2025 - 20:01

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Islamism and antisemitism: Paris will ask Brussels to “strengthen control” of funding

Paris – The French minister in charge of Europe, Benjamin Haddad, announced on Monday that he would ask Brussels to “strengthen control” over European funding so that it does not go to actors “linked to anti-Semitism or Islamism.”

“It is unthinkable and unacceptable that even a single euro of European public money goes to finance organizations, associations, or actors that would be hostile to our values, whether they are linked to hatred, anti-Semitism, or Islamism,” Mr. Haddad stated during a press briefing in Beauvau, where the Minister of the Interior had just received his Austrian counterpart.

The issue of controlling European funding will be raised with his Austrian counterpart Claudia Plakolm “at the next General Affairs Council,” on May 27 in Brussels, he added.

Without giving a specific example, the French minister expressed concern “about a number of episodes,” mentioned by the press in recent weeks, where programs “linked to Islamism or anti-Semitism” may have been “financed by European funds.” (May 19, 2025)