Conerns of corruption have been raised in the midst of an investigation into the billions delivered from the EU to the NGOs, supposedly in exchange for lobbying efforts on behalf of the European Commission to advance in left causes such as the Green Agenda.
The European Court of Auditors has found that between 2021 and 2023, non -governmental organizations (NGOs) received a total of € 7.4 ($ 8.4) billion of the EU, including 4.8 billion euros from the Government Commission.
Thousands of NGOs were financed with taxpayers to promote the so -called EU values and the causes of the advanced left of immigration, the environment and lobbying equally of the prohibition of combustion cars, Germany Focus The magazine reported.
The report of the Court of Auditors, which found that “there was no reliable vision of the EU funds granted to NGOs,” Conerns said that some organizations disguised themselves from NGOs to press politicians on behalf of or pray to the empfits actors used by groups to advance their own purposes.
The Auditors Court identified an unidentified investigation installation in the textile and cosmetics industry, which claimed to be the NGO to collect the financing of the EU, as if the “commercial interests of its members predominantly predominantly evidence had pursued.”
The Watchdog report found: “In all EU countries, the definition of what an NGO is varies, and is rarely enshrined in national legislation. In 2024, the EU essentially defined an NGO as independent of the government and a non -profit organization. It cannot guarantee that NGOs are correctly classified in the EU financial transparency system.
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The investigation was launched after the Qatargate scandal, which was broken in 2022. For the most part, the representatives and officials of the leftist European Parliament have been accused of accepting bribes and other advantages of the Islamic kingdom of Qatar, as well as Morocco and Mauritania to promote their agendas within the EU. It has been claimed that some of the supposedly granted payments to Eurocats were channeled through NGOs.
The question of the influence of NGOs on political systems in Europe, criticized a long time ago by populist figures such as Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has received greater scrutiny in recent months after the decision of the Trump administration in the United States to discard the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which actively sought to promote liberal ideology and causes in Europe and other places.
Members of the European Popular Party (EPP) of the right -wing center have accused the commission of paying NGOs with the demands of pressing for the objectives of the Commission, such as advancing in the principles of the European Defense scheme of Leftist. Last month, the commission admitted that in “some cases” the arrangements with the NGOs “contained specific defense actions and undue lobbying activities.”
The issue of using public money to influence debates about the environment stood out in 2023, when Dutch News Paper Of Telegraaf He informed that the commission had used taxpayers’ money to finance environmental organizations for the Purple Express of the lobbying on behalf of the Green Agenda of the former climate chief of the EU Frans Timmermans.
In a case highlighted by the report, 700,000 euros were tasks of climatic subsidies to pay supposedly independent organizations to influence the debate on farmers’ protests on draconian climatic restrictions in a “green direction”.
In January, Monika Hohlmeier, vice president of the EU Parliament Budget Committee, said: “The European Commission’s contracts with lobbying guidelines violate the principle of mutual respect between institutions and incidents in the defenseless, Thamspendence, Trachspedence, tranchspere, Thamspedence, Trachspendence, Trancchspendence. Tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, trachspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence ,, tranchspendence, aspedance, tranchspendence, asspoy tranchspendence, rough Thamspendancy, Aspension.
“We urge the Commission to put an end to this type of contract, to obtain the consequences to avoid such scandalous methods once in the future and to guarantee that the incorrect money is reimbursed.”
