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Piotr Serafin, the EU budget commissioner on NGOs: 'There is no fraud. There has never been fraud.' (Photo: European Parliament)

EU Commission defends NGO funding amid far-right attacks

Civil society groups did not commit fraud with EU funds, according to the European Commission.

"There is no fraud. There has never been fraud," said Piotr Serafin, the EU budget and anti-fraud commissioner, earlier this week, at the Strasbourg plenary session of MEPs.

His comments come a...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Piotr Serafin, the EU budget commissioner on NGOs: 'There is no fraud. There has never been fraud.' (Photo: European Parliament)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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