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"I would like to ask the Commissioner how she can justify the proposed increase in funding in Horizon 2020 for security research. I note that research carried out by a policy department of this Parliament concluded that, in the current framework programme, it is mostly large defence companies that are the main beneficiaries. These large defence companies, of course, are the merchants of death responsible for one-third of the world’s arms trade. The examples of Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, which have received tens of millions of euros in European taxpayers’ funds, surely illustrate the point. These are firms involved in the building of the Israeli apartheid wall and involved in supplying the drones and war planes that terrorise the Palestinian people.
How does this funding tally, how does it square, with the rhetoric of the Nobel-Peace-Prize-winning European Union? Would the Commissioner not agree that Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industry should be explicitly excluded from Horizon 2020, and that the armaments industry in general should not receive any taxpayer funding?"@en1
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