Corruption concerns have been raised in exchange for lobbying on behalf of the Commission to advance leftist causes such as the Green Agenda.
The European Audit Court has found that between 2021 and 2023, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received a total of 7.4 euros ($8.4 billion) from the EU.
Due to the ban on German burn-engine vehicles, thousands of NGOs were funded with taxpayer cash to promote so-called EU values and to promote immigration, environmentalism and even left-wing causes. concentration magazine It has been reported.
The Audit Court report reported that it “discovered that there is no reliable summary of EU funds granted to NGOs.” Such organizations were concerned that they were disguising themselves as NGOs to lobby politicians on behalf of their financial interests, and claimed that they were non-profit and that they used groups to advance the announcement.
The unnamed research facility in the textile and cosmetics industry, which claims to be an NGO to receive EU funds, was identified by the Audit Court as pursuing “mainly for-profit organizations’ business interests” while maintaining its non-profit status.
Watchdog Report Discovery: “The definition of NGOs vary in EU countries and rarely in national law. In 2024, the EU essentially defined NGOs as independent of governments and non-profit organizations.
“This is because the entity is a self-declaration as an NGOS and the committee does not check for important aspects of its position, such as whether the government has a significant impact on the governing body or whether NGOs pursue the commercial interests of its members.”
The investigation began after the Qatar Gate scandal that was destroyed in 2022. Representatives and officials of mostly left-wing European Parliament have been accused of accepting bribes and other perks from Qatar’s Islamic kingdom and promoting the intra-EU agenda from Morocco and Mauritania. It is allegedly been leaked through NGOs, some of the payments allegedly given to Eurocrats.
The issue of the impact of NGOs on the European political system, long criticised by populist figures such as Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, has been scrutinized in recent months following the Trump administration’s decision to scrap the US International Development Agency (USAID), followed by the decision to abolish the US International Development Agency (USAID), which actively sought to encourage causes in Europe and its regions.
It is owned by members of the European People’s Party (EPP) on the center right. defendant The committee paying NGOs requires lobbying for fee targets, including moving forward with the doctrine of the left-wing European Green Deal Scheme. Last month, committee Recognised “In some cases” arrangements with NGOs “involved certain advocacy actions and excessive lobbying.”
The issue of using public funds to influence environmental debates came to the forefront in Dutch newspapers in 2023. Detelegraph It has been reported The committee had used taxpayer money to fund environmental groups for a clear purpose, with lobbying, on behalf of the former EU Climate Director-General France Timerman Green Agenda.
In one example highlighted in the report, 700,000 euros were taken from Qi candidate subsidies and probably paid independent organisations, affecting debates about farmers’ protests over farmers’ climate restrictions in the “green direction.”
In January, Monika Hohlmeier, vice-chairman of the EU Parliament’s Budget Committee; I said: “The European Commission’s contract with the Lobbying Guidelines violates the principles of mutual respect between systems and conflicts with essential principles such as legislative independence, transparency, avoidance of conflicts of interest, fair and equitable distribution of funds, and accountability for the proper use of taxpayers.”
“The committee urges us to end this type of agreement, avoid such scandalous one-sided methods in the future and extract results to ensure that misused money is repaid.”
