We Demand FULL Transparency - Shady NGO Contracts Need to be Revealed

Strasbourg 19/06/2025 - The Patriots for Europe Group has been demanding full transparency for months regarding the Commission’s opaque NGO funding - and we were the first to take decisive action. Let us be absolutely clear: thanks to the data requests by the Patriots, it has been revealed that the European Commission awarded 37,000 contracts to so-called NGOs—worth an astonishing €17 billion of taxpayers’ money. The time for games is over. European citizens deserve to know: Who received the money? For what purpose? Under what criteria?

This is why we have been demanding an inquiry committee for months, and this is why we supported the ECR’s initiative during today’s Conference of Presidents (COP) meeting. We regret that the EPP and the left-wing groups refused to support a fully-fledged inquiry committee. However, with a right-wing majority we achieved a scrutiny working group that will investigate the dubious NGO contracts. We prevented the left groups from sweeping this matter under the rug once again.

Our fight for transparency is far from over. Our citizens deserve answers. Patriots initiative on the Transparency and Accountability (TRAC) inquiry committee to tackle the Pfizergate and other issues of corruption and abuse in EU institutions is still underway.