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EU funds prop up local government in Zimbabwe and Belarus

On May 11, 2012

Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis today condemned EU funding to local governments in totalitarian regimes including Zimbabwe and Belarus. The EU is currently providing €6.48 million (£5.2 million) to support 20 different development projects which benefit local authorities in repressed countries throughout the world.

The EU is providing funding to local authorities in Belarus, Côte d’Ivoire […]

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Conservative MEP calls on EU to cancel failing aid projects

On May 10, 2012

London Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis voted not to sign off on the accounts for the European Union’s multi-billion pound aid programme today.

Conservative MEPs have refused to sign off on any part of the EU’s accounts until the Court of Auditors approves the entire budget. Last year the court rejected the budget for the seventeenth […]

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