EU Parliament Sets up Working Group to Scrutinise EU Funding to NGOs

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The EU Commission secretly paid environmental organisations for dubious lobbying, as confidential documents showed. The world revelation now leads to the establishment of a body to investigate the process.

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The Patriots have achieved a breakthrough: with their participation, a working group will be established in the European Parliament to investigate suspicious contracts for NGO funding, the Fidesz-KDNP European Parliament (EP) group wrote in a statement on Friday.

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NGOs are calling on the government to withdraw one of the criteria in the tender for the development and professionalization of NGOs and volunteering. The controversial criterion gives priority to those who already collect the most from personal income tax, they say. The Ministry of Public Administration assesses that the tender is balanced.

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While for the moment it has only adopted texts with no legal value with the far right, the EPP knows that it can rely on these three political groups to form a majority, but this strategy divides the group.

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The European Parliament voted today to form a working group to examine the funding of NGOs from the European Union budget, representing a victory for right-wing political groups, reports Politiko.

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The European Parliament voted on Thursday to set up a working group to investigate European Union (EU) funding for non-governmental organizations. The creation of the working group was supported by right-wing and right-wing populist groups.