One Question - Have They Been Democratically Elected?

• By ALEKSANDRA ERIKSSON 

BRUSSELS

Members of the European Parliament's constitutional affairs committee (Afco) have said they are not obliged to fund parties that don't respect the founding principles of the EU, in a hearing with representatives of the Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) on Thursday (9 February).

Hungarian MEP Gyorgy Schopflin said his centre-right EPP group was committed to freedom of speech, but not to funding parties that represent "ideas directly contrary to the EU".

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  Stefan Jacobsson (l), Peter Richter (c) and Roberto Fiore (r). (Photo: Aleksandra Eriksson)

"These are legitimate in terms of debate, but not to receive financing from the EU institutions," he said. "The European Parliament decides for itself how it wants to spend its money".

Schopflin is one of two MEPs in charge of the committee's probe into whether the European political party Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) complies with the founding principles of the EU.

Afco members are trying to enforce a parliamentary rule, which says EU money can only go to parties that respect “the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law”.

It is the first time the parliament tries to enforce this rule.

Last year, the parliament awarded €600,000 to the Alliance for Peace and Freedom, a pan-EU party founded in February 2015.

WOULD THEY DO THIS TO AN EXTREME LEFT PARTY?  - We all know the answer to that! ONLY if they refused to take their seats would this abomination be legitimate!

NOTE: The far Left murdered, or were responsible for many more people dead, across the 20th Century than the right!