Grants: Belgian Parties and Eu Grants

grants: The group will also be denied 248,345 in grants it could have secured if it had followed the rules, a damaging blow to the cash-strapped party, according to The Guardian. Once misspending by Dutch and Belgian parties was taken into account, the ADDE and an affiliated foundation were found to have misused 500,615 of EU grants. The Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe, a Ukip-controlled group, was asked to return 172,655 by a committee of senior MEPs on Monday night, after officials found the party had breached EU rules by pouring money into the UK 2015 general election and the EU referendum. Senior MEPs endorsed the report of the parliament finance team, a document seen by the Guardian last week, which concluded the ADDE had funnelled cash into Nigel Farage failed attempt to win a seat at Thanet South, as well as opinion polls to test the public mood in the run-up the EU referendum campaign. The activities of the ADDE were found to breach the rules for European party financing, a European parliament statement said, citing opinion polls funded by the ADDE in British constituencies before of the 2015 general election, as well as public opinion surveys before June referendum. EU rules ban parties from spending European grants on national elections or referendums. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.