Dozens of members of parliament from 14 European countries have called for an urgent investigation into who is bankrolling US Christian right groups that have spent at least $50 million in Europe, as revealed by openDemocracy last month.
This week, a group of 51 MPs wrote to the European Commission’s vice-president Frans Timmermans asking him to “investigate the funding sources and compatibility of these organisations with EU law, fundamental rights and European values”.
In March, openDemocracy revealed that a dozen US Christian ‘fundamentalist’ groups, some of which are linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon, have poured in at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade.
