Fidesz MEPs turn to European Ombudsman over financing of NGOs

The majority of the European People's Party and the ultra-right forces vote for the European Commission to withdraw its work plan from the LIFE programme, which is dedicated to environmental projects, under the pretext that NGOs are financed to lobby for the Green Pact. It was a vote without binding legal effect, but with a significant symbolic burden. The European People's Party and the ultra-right had raised objections to the work plan and to …

Conservative attacks on NGOs are threat to democracy

Today, the European People’s Party and the far right are raising objections to the multiannual financing of the LIFE programme in the European Parliament’s committee on environment, climate, and food safety. These objections are politically motivated attempts to undermine NGOs receiving financing under the EU LIFE programme. This represents yet another outrageous assault on civil society, aimed at silencing them...

Fidesz MEPs turn to European Ombudsman over financing of NGOs

Csaba Dömötör said Fidesz MEPs would again submit their requests for information. "If we're denied entry through the door, we'll knock again ... but more firmly," he said.

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