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Mostly true: “EU now spends three times more than Russia on defence”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, BE December 14, 2022

On November 05th, 2022, Irish left-wing party Independents 4 change (I4C) MP Mick Wallace, tweeted that the “Reality is EU now spends 3 times more than Russia” on defence. After analysing the figures Mr. Wallace refers to in his claim, it becomes clear that the claim is mostly true. Numbers from 2021During a word exchange…

True: “80 percent of the European money for agriculture goes to the 20 percent largest farmers”

Fact-check, TrueBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL May 23, 2019 2 Comments

The current European agricultural policy runs until 2020. The discussions about this policy for 2021 have therefore started. Following this discussion, Menno Bentveld, a reporter at the Dutch national radio station NPO Radio 1 called Bas Eickhout, MEP on behalf of GroenLinks. Eickhout claimed that 80 percent of the European agricultural money goes to the…