content: Even if the EU is doing nothing nefarious here (which is quite the assumption, given their history), they are still buying influence at PM, whether intentional or not.  Once the EU is responsible for that significant amount of funding in a company, you have to assume: 1) The bureaucrats at the EU will never call in any favors to anyone who owes them anything at PM 2) The EU will have no influence on policy decisions in return for the mass of euros 3) The EU will have no influence on the hiring policies at PM, inserting their own people or people who hold their ideology 4) PM will be willing to fight the EU on any issue affecting their business that they would have prior to the EU funding or  5) That the EU does not now, and never will, have bureaucrats who will ever be willing to use their financial power for corrupt means. Personally, I'd like to have the EU's hands well away from any information that greedmongers and power-hungry ideologues could use against me.