A new European Court of Auditors (ECA) report has found a lack of transparency in EU funding awarded to NGOs – saying that the European Commission “has not adequately disclosed certain promotional activities (such as lobbying) funded by the EU”.
“EU funding for NGOs is too opaque and suffers from a lack of transparency,” said Laima Andrikiene, the lead auditor on the report. “We are not talking about peanuts here,” she added, referring to the billions of euro involved.
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