EU urged to exclude Israel from research fund.
Some 154 organizations from 16 ‎countries sign letter urging EU lawmakers to exclude Israeli defense contractors from $117 billion research and innovation program in 2021-2027 • Move could cost Israel billions of dollars in grants …

Israel, a world-renowned innovation hub, has been the top ‎dependent on these funds among non-EU member states.

The letter is titled "No EU Money to the Israeli Arms Industry." …
"The EU has been funding security-industrial research ‎for many years," it claims.

"European taxpayers’ money is being ‎channeled to military companies, among them many Israeli ‎corporations, under the disguise of research and a promise that the ‎technologies and techniques developed will be used solely for ‎civilian purposes.‎

‎"One of the ways in which arms and military companies have ‎gained access to EU funding is through the current EU Program for ‎Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020. This includes many Israeli ‎military companies.…

Israel will lose billions of dollars in ‎technological and ‎scientific R&D grants.

http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/07/01/anti-israel-activists-push-eu-%E2%80%8Eto-exclude-israel-from-research-projects-%E2%80%8E/