European political parties line up for EU funds

European political parties will be getting money from the EU coffers this year from an annual budget of 6.5 million euro, under new rules adopted by EU states last year.

Eligible parties have until 23 July to apply for the money issued by the European Parliament.

A number of European-level parties have been formed over the years, such as the EPP (Christian democrats/centre-right), the Party of European Socialists, the ELDR (liberals), the European Free Alliance (chiefly regionalis...