What would be the reasoning behind dropping funding? That you can read the output of another country instead of duplicating work?

I doubt heavily that would happen but even if it did that'd be a good thing.

> It's my opinion that there should be a gateway and one must us their state ID or something.

A full, international login system for every person in the EU just in case someone else in the world might want to read a paper? That sounds expensive and complicated compared to just using the web as it exists.