[pergadad]

It's not donations. It's regional development funds and social funds which are also distributed at regional level. They are meant to build up the capacity in certain fields in certain regions. The money tends to be a lot for some region and the administrations fail to manage and use them properly. The issue is not that they are given, the issue is how they are used. But they do not support individual companies, they are for the regions. Yes too many people are dependent on these nowadays be they are essential to infrastructure development and social support systems in many places.

[TomMarius]

If a company receives free money then a company receives free money, there is nothing else. There is no way to sponsor a company without... sponsoring a company. I don't care that "it's for the regions", it literally destroys lives of other people; one former businessman that was pushed out of business by EU funded-companies confessed that he seriously considered suicide after his wife left him because she couldn't withstand life with a man who's indebted forever, for example, and the whole previously functioning sector is now deformed and basically destroyed and might not rebuild within our lifetimes. Companies 10 times older than the EU were destroyed. I'm talking about printing companies, read something about it. If something has the potential to destroy lives, there can't be excuses like "oops, sorry, it wasn't properly managed".