Left-Wing NGOs Hysterical About Proposals to Investigate Them
8th April 2025
The Soros-funded Civil Society Europe, an organisation that connects left-wing groups from across Europe, released a statement on Monday, April 7th, decrying the “attack” on NGOs by right-wing groups in the European Parliament.
“This attack resorts to misleading arguments to fabricate a scandal,” the statement reads. It claims that civil society organisations are a “crucial tool” for ensuring that “the rights of citizens” are “collectively heard for building an inclusive society and a shared European future.”
The statement comes after recent revelations that billions of euros in EU taxpayer funds have been spent on progressive political activism across the bloc.
Members of the national conservative Patriots for Europe (PfE)—the third largest group in the European Parliament and the main opposition bloc in Brussels—recently launched a campaign to force the Commission to disclose all contracts with EU-funded NGOs. In a report on Monday, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) also labelled EU funding of NGOs “too opaque.” The ECA criticised the European Commission for failing to clearly disclose information about advocacy activities carried out by NGOs using EU funds.