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Dieses Dokument ist Teil der Anfrage „Informationen in Bezug auf Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung“
Ref. Ares(2021)4646305 - 19/07/2021
From: CHRISTOPHIDOU Themis (EAC) Sent: 18 9:29 AM ee CABALLERO BASSEDAS Arturo (EAC); ERIKSSUN WAIERSCHUUT Sophia (EAC Viviane (EAC); EAC);| EAC); EAC DG Subject: Heads-up on using "ERASMUS" by the AfD Importance: High
From the well-known Thanks for preparing a draft reply asap on the issue of Erasmus & AfD Themis Dear Themis, I am writing to you also because I am worried (with other retired colleagues) that the brand/name of your flagship program ‚ERASMUS+‘ could be stained by the foundation that the extrem right German party ‚Alternative für Deutschland‘ (AfD) is using as a party related foundation and which is called ‚Disiderius Erasmus Stiftung‘. As you see from the screen shot of their website, they are pretending to strengthen democracy through less dictation by
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the EU under the label of Erasmus. I don’t know whether the ‚ERASMUS‘ brand is protected and whether there are means to prevent the AfD from using ‚ERASMUS‘ for their anti-EU propaganda. But I wanted to draw your attention to this, because ERASMUS is one of the few popular projects and brands of the EU and it should be defended. Maybe you could also raise this with your German counterparts. Thanks in advance if you could do something about this.