MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs

Rightwing MEPs get support for anti-green EU inquiry

The ECR group secured enough signatures to launch a formal inquiry committee into what they call 'green lobbying' and the use of EU funds for green NGOs.

MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs

In a knife edge vote, the European Parliament’s environment committee voted down an objection jointly tabled by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) against continued funding of civil society campaign groups.

EPP's challenge to NGO funding fails amid defections

The text concerns €15 million disbursed annually via the bloc’s LIFE programme for climate and environment groups.

BRUSSELS, 1 (EUROPA PRESS) The European Commission has taken a number of measures to avoid refinancing undue lobbying activities through the LIFE programme, the Community financing instrument for the environment, recognizing that, in some cases, the work programmes presented by NGOs contained specific promotional actions. [...] The entry The EU takes measures to avoid refinancing undue lobbying through the LIFE programme first appears in Forbes …

Right-wing attempt to block EU funding for climate NGOs collapses « Carbon Pulse

A right-wing attempt to curtail funding for environmental NGOs in the European Union collapsed on Monday evening, in a vote before the European Parliament's environment committee.

The text concerns the EUR 15 million disbursed each year through the European Union's LIFE programme for climate and environmental groups.