Blimey, that article about US fundamentalist funding in Europe.
Excerpts below.
US fundamentalists spent £38m on European politics
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/us-fundamentalists-spent-38m-on-european-politics
US Christian fundamentalist groups have spent over $50m (£38m) in Europe over the past decade, and have dramatically ramped up campaigning in recent years, according to a report by the UK political website OpenDemocracy.
The analysis comes amid growing concern about the extent to which western democracies can be influenced using “dark money”, political funding from unknown sources. None of the groups examined by OpenDemocracy identify their financial backers.
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The Alliance Defending Freedom, which campaigned in favour of a law in Belize making gay sex punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment, has tripled its spending in Europe to £1.5m annually.
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The group [Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty] has previously co-sponsored a conference in Italy with the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, a Catholic organisation supported by the far-right campaigner Steve Bannon with plans to transform a former monastery into a “gladiator school for culture warriors”.
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Others scheduled to attend [World Congress of Families conference] include a Nigerian activist who has compared gay people to the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, and a Ugandan politician who campaigned for gay people to be jailed for life or executed.
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Caroline Lucas MP, the former leader of the Green party in the UK, told OpenDemocracy: “It’s deeply worrying to see US far-right millionaires exporting their particular brand of hate-filled politics to Europe.”