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The article explains how the EU intends to kindly send money abroad through "development aid programmes" but not how anything actually helps the EU and its econ

The article explains how the EU intends to kindly send money abroad through "development aid programmes" but not how anything actually helps the EU and its economy.

saubeidl 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power
- mytailorisrich 1y ago
  That does not answer the question, or perhaps it does when it's hard to write "it does not". More waste of money on public sector jobs and useless overseas spending instead of putting its house in order. This is partly what drives the public backlash against the "green agenda"... the economy and public finances are squeezed then the people see money spent on this abroad in a way that will not help them or, in fact, the green transition in the EU at all.
  - tene80i 1y ago
    You prove it’s waste. Go right ahead.
    - mytailorisrich 1y ago
      If no-one can answer my question "how anything actually helps the EU and its economy" then surely we must conclude that it is a waste...
      - saubeidl 1y ago
        It helps it by being a form of power projection, as I tried to explain in the above link.
      - mdhb 1y ago
        This is the logic of a five year old.
  - saubeidl 1y ago
    That demonstrates why the overseas spending is not useless.