If you ever wondered why Europe’s artistic landscape has been increasingly dominated by leftist, woke tropes in the past decade, it’s time to look straight to Brussels.
According to the findings of an explosive new report published by the think tank MCC Brussels on Wednesday, April 23rd, the EU has been “strategically co-opting culture to advance a radical social and political agenda.” This strategy includes the subtle yet relentless manipulation of language, the complete redefinition of European heritage, and the promotion of a post-national society with billions of taxpayer funds.
The report—titled “The Jargon of ‘Diversity’: How the EU Co-opts Culture to Push its Agendas”—was written by Katalin Deme, Ph.D., an academic and expert in culture and art history who spent two decades at Denmark’s Aarhus University before joining the think tank in Brussels.
Deme begins by highlighting unsettling parallels with the linguistic tactics of totalitarian regimes, arguing that the EU’s focus on ideological buzzwords such as “diversity” and “inclusion”—while deliberately avoiding terms like “nation”—often comes at the cost of Europe’s unique foundational values.
The author breaks down Brussels’ social engineering operation by examining the EU’s long-term strategic framework for cultural policy, laid down in the New European Agenda for Culture, and its financial execution through projects funded through the Creative Europe program, which prioritizes themes like migration, gender ideology, and environmentalism while snubbing or even directly undermining Europe’s Christian heritage or Enlightenment values.
Summarizing her core findings, Deme explained to europeanconservative.com:
This report exposes a disturbing trend: the hijacking of culture for political ends through the vast financial power of the European Union. Taxpayers’ money, intended to support Europe’s diverse artistic landscape, is instead being used to fund projects aligned with a narrow, leftist ideology—often at odds with national identity and traditional values.
When it comes to the distribution of the Creative Europe funds, whose budget has been increased from €1.5 to €2.5 billion in the current budgetary period, the report’s key findings include:
- Prioritization of politically charged projects over traditional arts and heritage;
- Marked avoidance of the term “nation” in favor of ambiguous concepts like “community,” particularly in projects involving migration and refugees;
- Music, dance, and theater initiatives that promote the deconstruction of national identities and the traditional family (such as the EuroNoize project that criticizes nationhood and promotes gender ideology).
Both in the projects and the EU’s strategic papers, Deme also notes the introduction of a “dystopian jargon” that now dominates Europe’s cultural discourse, where terms like “sustainability,” “inclusion,” and “diversity” overshadow core artistic values such as heritage, beauty, and excellence.
“This systematic co-option is quietly eroding Europe’s cultural soul,” the report’s author warned.
The focus on a specific ideological agenda, funded by Brussels, risks creating a rootless, transnational entity at the expense of its member states’ diverse and historically rich cultures.
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