🔎︎ Brussels
on paper

The EU-funded reality, influence, labour, and the paper trails in between.

Visible. Plausible. Provable.

If it’s paid with public money,
it deserves public visibility.

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    EU MONEY. NGO spending. Your right to see. Brussels first.

    If you claim a public-interest moral-authority role and live mostly on public funds, why should your HR costs and leadership pay be less transparent than those of the institutions you lobby?

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    ​Anca Paduraru​

    Journalist, data analyst, former NGO insider. I work with public filings, financial records, and institutional correspondence to map how EU-funded organisations handle money, labour, and accountability.

    This newsletter exists because Brussels has perfected a strange magic trick: immaculate paperwork, minimal operational visibility. Grants look clean. Reports look professional. “Impact” looks polished. And still, the execution layer stays largely unseeable.

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    Welcome to
    ​Brussels on paper

    A public-interest newsletter about one simple problem: power behaves differently when money is public and transparency is treated as optional.

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