{"id":161036,"date":"2025-08-18T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:49:01","slug":"eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission defends funding for Islam and Islamophobia research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU executive has pushed back against far-right criticism over the allocation of over \u20ac17 million in grants by the leading European Research Council (ERC) to Islam-related projects, insisting they won funding on scientific merit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/08\/18\/eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU executive has pushed back against far-right criticism over the allocation of over \u20ac17 million in grants by the leading European Research Council (ERC) to Islam-related projects, insisting they won funding on scientific merit. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":161037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}