See you in Hell, European Alcohol Policy Alliance!

Some excellent news from Brussels where the European Commission is pulling funding from more NGOs...

 

Eurocare announces closure of its Brussels office amid funding difficulties

The Board of Eurocare have announced that due to constraints on its funding it will no longer be able to maintain an office in Brussels and will be letting go its paid staff members from the end of the year. 

 

Eurocare AKA the European Alcohol Policy Alliance is a major part of the global temperance network established by Derek Rutherford. It has been kept afloat by unwitting taxpayers for years and is currently run by Florence Berteletti who used to run the Smoke Free Partnership (no slippery slope, eh?). Hopefully she is now out of a job and the Smoke Free Partnership will also be closed down because, as Politico reports... 

 

The Commission confirmed in July that it would be scrapping its operating grants — cash that goes toward daily overhead costs like staff salaries — for all health NGOs, despite signaling to many organizations that it would continue to fund them this year.

 

Haha! Afuera! 

 

Although Eurocare claims to be "funded by a combination of membership fees and EU grants", it seems to have had only two donors last year: the European Commission and a Norwegian temperance group - and the Norwegian temperance group was overwhelmingly funded by the Norwegian government. The European Public Health Alliance has already bitten the dust after losing its EU grant (and everybody falling out with each other in its toxic workplace). The rest of these tax-spongers wowsers won't be far behind. 

 

In the UK, Alcohol Concern vanished as soon as its Department of Health grants were withdrawn and ASH have said that they would have to look at shutting down if their own DHSC grants were pulled. Isn't it strange that organisations which supposedly fight for popular causes can't survive on donations from the public? It's almost as if the general public don't consider lobbying for illiberal, killjoy policies to be a good cause at all!