Transparency and NGO funding have come into play in the European Parliament’s 2023 discharge procedure for the European Commission’s budget, for which the Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) adopted its position, on Tuesday 8 April.
EPP, ECR and PfE MEPs have accused the European Commission of funding NGOs to promote the ‘European Green Deal’ within the European institutions (see EUROPE B13564A15). On Tuesday 1 April, the European Commission recognised two...