EC ‘paid shadow lobby to promote own green policies’, Dutch newspaper claims

According to a report in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the EU Commission is said to have specifically funded environmental organizations in order to enforce green laws.

The institution financed NGOs to pressure MEPs in favor of the Green Deal. A system of “phantom lobbying” that the Budget Commissioner had to recognize.

The European Commission would have used EU funds to finance a network of NGOs with the aim of “promoting the green agenda of former commissioner Frans Timmermans.” The revelation comes from the Dutch newspaper...

Former commissioner Frans Timmermans signed contracts worth hundreds of thousands of euros each to organizations to convince parliamentarians that the world is saved by culling cows and starving farmers and workers. According to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the European Union would have paid security...

This is revealed by an investigation by De Telegraaf. The European executive admits: 'It was inappropriate' (ANSA)

Money to an environmental lobby to support Timmermans reforms. The De Telegraaf investigation