>Who is funding and pushing this agenda to blanket spy on all Europeans?

Why are we ignoring the other side of the transaction? The side responsible for taking the money.

Giving bribes for lobbying is bad, but that would not be an issue if those found taking the bribes would be guillotined or hanged.

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy or corruption. It’s just design by committee bureaucracy. It always fails into that state.