{"id":425266,"date":"2025-09-15T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425266\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:19:11","slug":"europes-far-right-launches-legal-battle-against-eu-over-withheld-funding-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425266\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s far right launches legal battle against EU over withheld funding \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equal treatment<\/p>\n<p>In a separate lawsuit filed mid-July, the Patriots accused the Parliament of bias and lack of impartiality after it ruled the party had misspent funds in a campaign in Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament\u2019s Bureau, composed of MEPs and tasked with taking decisions on administrative issues, ruled the Patriots should pay for that campaign with their own money and give back the EU funds spent on it, which came to \u20ac228,000.<\/p>\n<p>The decision violated \u201cthe principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination, as it deemed similar campaigns by other parties to be reimbursable,\u201d the Patriot\u2019s case document, seen by POLITICO, read.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-1236997477-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7160649\"  \/>The far-right political family, home to France\u2019s Marine Le Pen and Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n, has consistently complained of being sidelined from EU policymaking and key positions of power since the 2024 European elections. | Wojtek Radwanski\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that the decision was not impartial, as the Bureau is composed mostly of center-right, liberal and left-wing lawmakers, with no far-right MEPs from the Patriots present to defend the case.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, they contend the Parliament violated their rights to defense as it censored big chunks of the letter the Patriots had sent to the bureau to defend themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In the first version of the letter, the Patriots compared their campaign with that of another EU party. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/12\/Letter-to-upload1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter that the administration circulated<\/a> in the bureau, the justification was redacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equal treatment In a separate lawsuit filed mid-July, the Patriots accused the Parliament of bias and lack of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1194,6215,30,473,31,33,2000,9898,299,5187,2816,1699,95665,1105,36,1824,145200,2190,44,2452,11665,5111,6646,48,2663,182,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-425266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-democracy","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-eu-funding","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-politics","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-far-left","21":"tag-far-right","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-gerolf-annemans","25":"tag-hungary","26":"tag-marine-le-pen","27":"tag-media","28":"tag-meps","29":"tag-parliament","30":"tag-public-funding","31":"tag-rights","32":"tag-sanctions","33":"tag-social-media","34":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115206158576212320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}