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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Arthur Neslen

Rightwing MEPs threaten huge funding freeze for environmental NGOs

Women cycling in Amsterdam.
The European Cyclists Federation is one of the NGOs facing a funding freeze. Photograph: Mario Galati/Alamy

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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