Pastors and plutocrats are sponsoring an ultra-conservative agenda in Europe. Many of them have links to Donald Trump. It\u2019s a world that's pretty opaque. But over the past year, investigative journalists have done painstaking work to pierce the veil. We talk to Bla\u017e Zgaga, a multi-award winning investigative journalist from Slovenia. Zgaga writes for Croatia's Nacional and publications including EUobserver. He\u2019s also a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and European Investigative Collaborations where he helps coordinate large cross-border investigations \u2014 including on the reach of the Christian lobby. He\u2019s emerged with extraordinary detail about some of the biggest funders of faith-based causes in Europe and their links to Trumpworld. Another chronicler of the merging of fundamentalist Christianity with European public policy is Mary Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was formerly with online activist network Avaaz and was a senior editor at Prospect magazine. She\u2019s now editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, an online platform that's also done exhaustive work on what U.S. non-profit groups disclose about their foreign spending. Fitzgerald's platform also has reported on the arrival in Europe of US-style political campaign funding \u2014 funding of the kind that's hard to trace and potentially unlimited. Visit our website for episode art and for more EU Scream. \u201cBeethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125\u201d by Papalin is licensed under CC by 3.0. \u201cAirside No. 9\u201d is played by Lara Natale.
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