Post by Lise Witteman
Journalist. Heading FTM’s EU desk
How to capture the current rightwing rage sweeping through Brussels? I’ve spend months looking into key facilitators and catalysts of the Christian Democratic European People's Party 🇪🇺/ Trumpist 🇺🇸 /far right 💩 - alliances in Brussels currently bashing NGOs as if Orbán never left and killing ☘️ policies as if we aren't enduring another insane 🥵 summer; the "Don't Look Up" kinda people, so to speak 👻 Finally, I found an Austrian businessman instrumentalising a Bavarian network to help wield his interests in the heart of European power 😬 Meet the talented Mr. Paul RÜBIG EU 👔: the man behind the men infringing our future 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNbVmvNw With thanks to the great research of the NGOs SOMO, BLOOM Association, Corporate Europe Observatory and Transparency International EU aswell as that of my colleagues Salsabil Fayed, Lisanne van Vucht, Anna Milovanovic, Alexander Fanta, Hans Wetzels and Charlotte Wirth who contributed reporting and our editor Leonie Kijewski for killing all my darlings (find the easter eggs hidden in the article!) to keep the story alive 💫