Mission creeps: How EU funding and activist NGOs captured the gender agenda

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A major new report from MCC Brussels has revealed that over €220 million in EU funds have been used to advance a radical gender identity agenda, promoting controversial policies that undermine women’s rights, child safeguarding, and national sovereignty — all without meaningful democratic debate. The report, "Mission Creeps: How EU Funding and Activist NGOs Captured the Gender Agenda," authored by sociologist Ashley Frawley, is the first comprehensive investigation into how a small but powerful network of NGOs has shaped EU gender policy under the radar of public scrutiny.

About the author

Dr Ashley Frawley, visiting research fellow, MCC Brussels; sociologist and author of “Against legalised euthanasia in Europe: The bureaucratic control of life and death”, Semiotics of Happiness: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem (2015) and Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age