Overview
- Tesla received €159 million in EU funding under the Connecting Europe Facility for electric vehicle charging stations in 2023.
- SpaceX billed the EU €177 million for two Falcon 9 launches of Galileo satellites, justified as exceptions due to Ariane 6 delays.
- The EU Commission confirmed it has not procured services from X (formerly Twitter) since October 2023, after paying €630,000 for advertising.
- MEP Daniel Freund has called Musk an 'enemy of the EU' and demanded an immediate halt to all subsidies to his companies.
- Transparency concerns persist as the EU Commission's full 2024 payment data will not be released until June 2025.