yes. There is a need for funding a number of well focussed short-term concerted actions to accelerate the production of the sprints. A suitable committee should be entitle to select or provoke the sprint proposals, and to assign to them a reasonable amount of funds, with a simplified procedure. It happened for the Project Teams in CEN TC251; most of them were very effective.

More EU funding would be nice, but if we are totally unable to do anything without more and more funding, what is really going on? But indeed, a euro or two always helps.