The paper “De Telegraaf” informs that the organisations with which it signed agreements The European Commission, "to accomplish concrete results lobbying both Members of the European Parliament and associate States, to advance a more ambitious environmental policy agenda". Brussels was to usage the money from the Climate and Environmental Subsidies Fund for its lobbying activities.
German Euro MP Monika Hohlmeier said that EU funds had been "inappropriated". ‘Rzeczpospolita’, recalling the policy, she suggested that the European Commission's Environment Department (DG ENVI) had donated money to NGOs specifically for lobbying against farmers and EC politicians, contrary to the Green Deal.
"Hohlmeier told Euronews station that her concerns arose erstwhile she examined about 30 backing agreements from the 1920s and 2023 as part of an yearly audit of EU budget expenditure by the parliament," says Rzeczpospolita. These organisations were to organise mass protests and bomb the EC politicians with news on the eve of crucial votes.
— Part of the backing from the EU LIFE Environment Programme, worth EUR 5.4 billion, may have been inappropriate," said EU Commissioner for Budget, Public Administration and the fight against fraud, Piotr Serafin. The Commissioner besides stated that the guidelines issued last May, which ordered officials to take "urgent follow-up, specified as the revision of ongoing grant agreements", "this has solved all specified problems".
The European Court of Auditors is due to present a peculiar study on the procedure by June.
