[Rochus]

So here some references in case you don't believe that there was EU funding:

https://doc.pypy.org/en/release-1.9/index-report.html

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1667583

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2004-December/001...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy#Funding