Top MEPs seek to starve fringe parties of funding

STRASBOURG — Senior MEPs want to change the European Parliament’s funding rules to make it more difficult for Euroskeptic and fringe parties to be given cash. Klaus Welle, the Parliament’s powerful secretary-general, has drawn up a report, seen by POLITICO, which calls for changes to rules on how many MEPs are needed for a political party to be given money from the EU’s coffers. MORE...

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