In a long article published on Friday 31 May, the European investigative media Follow the Money revealed that more than three-quarters of the funding received by European political parties between 2019 and 2022 came from unknown sources.
“Political parties in the European Union received almost a billion in donations between 2019 and 2022. For hundreds of millions of euros, the public doesn’t know who donated the money”, they write in their preamble. The name of the donor is only...