EU’s €1.2billion funds to NGOs lack transparency, support questionable groups – MEP warns

‘The European Parliament lacks transparency in the funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that received hundreds of millions in donations from Brussels in 2015, the author of a report focusing on the issue warns, according to Spiegel.
An estimated €1.2 billion ($1.28 billion) was paid by the EU to NGOs in 2015, with parts of transactions lacking clarity or apparently landing in the hands of organizations with goals contrary to the bloc’s desired aims, the news outlet says.
“Transparency does not seem to be one of the EU Commission’s priorities when it comes to granting EU funding,” EU Commissioner Markus Pieper (CDU), author of a report on the financing of non-governmental organizations, told Der Spiegel.’
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