Rightwing MEPs threaten huge funding freeze for environmental NGOs

Freeze to EU’s LIFE programme funding would deprive 30 NGOs of up to 70% of annual incomes

Several environmental NGOs could be effectively shut down in Europe, if a defunding push by rightwing MEPs is successful, campaigners say.

At the same time that centre and far right MEPs are revving up strategies to defang, deregulate or decapitate the European Green Deal, an EU plan to cut emissions to net zero by 2050, a proposed funding freeze in the European Parliament would weaken green groups.

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