NGO transparency: the EEP’s demand • Table.Briefings

As a consequence of Qatargate, the Christian Democrats are calling for stronger transparency rules for non-governmental organizations. But Fight Impunity and others did not fall through the cracks because they were NGOs but because the EU Commission, the European Parliament and the Belgian authorities did not sufficiently monitor compliance with the applicable rules.

„The Kaili/Panzeri corruption case could have been prevented by sufficient transparency in NGOs,“ Markus Pieper said on Monday in the plenary session of the European Parliament. The CDU politician has been calling for more disclosure requirements for years – in 2017 he was rapporteur of an own-initiative report on NGO transparency. But the EPP withdrew the report due to opposition from civil society as well as the left wing in the Parliament.

NGO transparency: the EEP’s demands

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