The European Commission’s funding of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is “opaque” and exposes the executive to “reputational risk”, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has concluded following a lengthy probe. But its report may not be the smoking gun that some critics were hoping for.
“We did not find a single case during our audit of an NGO breaching EU values,” the ECA member responsible for the report, Laima Andrikienė, told reporters at a briefing shortly before publication.
