EU parliament mulls funding ban for far-right party
The European Parliament may restrict its grant payments to a far-right alliance that is planning a large rally in Sweden at the end of the month. The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is an EU-level party with fire-brand Stefan Jacobsson, a Swede with a neo-Nazi past, as its secretary-general. More than a quarter of MEPs signed thé pétition (Photo: europarl.europa.eu ) It also counts members from the Greek neo-nazi Golden Dawn party, the British National Party, and Germany's National Democratic Party (NPD), among others. They received some €400,000 in EU money this year and are said to be using some of it to finance the rally. Swedish centre-left MEP Marita Ulvskog told this website on Friday (13 May) that it has to be stopped. "They are now preparing for a large meeting this summer in Sweden where nazis and fascists from different parts of the European Union will gather in Sweden and they are paid by EU money," she said. Ulvskog had already tried