EU funding for Libertas on hold after confusion over signatories

The European Parliament has put a decision to grant anti-EU treaty group Libertas funding on hold after it emerged that the group may no longer fulfill the criteria for receiving the money.

The move to grant Libertas status as a European political party, entitling it to around €200,000, had already been taken by parliament officials in Strasbourg on Monday (2 February) when one of the members on the list denied ever backing the group.

Igor Grazin, a liberal member of the Estonian ...