Did the European Union really fund the Wuhan laboratory? A tragic question posed by the League
A worker is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province, on February 23, 2017. – The P4 epidemiological laboratory was built in co-operation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)
Today we read, from various newspapers, an official statement from the head of delegation Marco Campomenosi in which the question of the financing of the notorious biogenetic laboratory in Wuhan, from which Covid-19 is thought to have started, is addressed.
The EU sheds light on funding for the Wuhan laboratory. As emerged in recent days, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China's most important virology center located in the epicenter of the Covid epidemic, benefited from European funding: in 2015 and 2019 the European Commission awarded respectively 73,375 and 87,436 euro in favor of the Institute as part of the funding program to promote Horizon 2020 research. Furthermore, a project for the control of virus epidemics, launched on January 1, 2020, would be financing the Institute with an additional 88,433.75 euros. The Horizon 2020 program requires the EU Commission to check project participants up to two years after payment. At this moment, on such delicate topics, maximum transparency is necessary and mandatory. For this reason we have submitted a question to the European Commission to find out if the control and verification mechanism has been activated and with what results, as well as to request more effective controls in the phase following the funding. Furthermore, given the damage to our internal market resulting from the trade in counterfeit medicines from China, we ask why the EU continues to fund these research programs.
here two different levels of problems arise:
- how can the Commission finance a project that helps scientific development with potential military strategic repercussions, of a country governed by a single communist and anti-libertarian party;
- how can the Commission finance projects in countries which, for biological safety, are the opposite of what is necessary.
Unfortunately, it is well known that the Chinese lobby in Brussels is very powerful, relying also on extraordinary economic and pressure instruments from all points of view. There have been cases of diplomats accused of acting on Beijing's behalf. The Commission, a non-democratic instrument that does not answer to anyone, with Germany, heavily dependent on China and Turkey economically, are increasingly turning out to be the soft underbelly of Democracy and Freedom.
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