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How would you hear of somebody getting these funds? I don’t personally know anybody who’s gotten massive VC funding in the US either, but I think it does happen.

I don’t see any reason to be skeptical of the requirement to find a female co-founder, I mean it is clearly a program to promote equality, but that is an uncontroversial goal in some places.

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Suspicious that the EU claims to "promote gender equality" while turning a blind eye to the male only conscription perpetrated by EU members Austria, Finland, etc

Should the EU have the right to reject national election results if the results show no gender equality?

It is a lot easier to come up with new rules for a project that requires proactively making investments (where it is assumed they will be selective anyway), than it is to convince a country to change their military policy.

> convince a country to change their military policy

Maybe they can't force them but the EU has mechanisms to punish illiberal behavior like the fines they are charging Hungary.

They should start fining countries that do make only drafts, at least to start a conversation about it.

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