Camouflaging, tricking and deceiving is apparently the new green motto – there is no longer any trace of decency anywhere
Vienna (OTS) – The FPÖ general secretary and youth spokesman NAbg is a more than strange supporter of associations in the Green Party environment. Michael Schnedlitz noticed. A completely unknown club received almost 150,000 euros in basic funding in 2022. In order to generate such a sum, the association would have to have between fifty and eighty thousand members. The European parent club of the Austrian branch claims to have 30,000 members in 30 European countries. “That stinks to high heaven. This unknown club is said to have almost twice as many members in Austria as in the whole of Europe? Here we seem to be dealing with a particularly bold attempt at funding fraud – and in the middle of it all is the “decency party”, the Greens. The head of the Austrian association is the Green district councilor Tina Schneeberger, who is in seventh place on the list for the EU elections. We urgently demand clarification here,” said Schnedlitz, who expressed the suspicion that this association is just a shell – filled with hot political air – that is simply being used to unfairly collect funding. Schnedlitz: “Where is the decency here, Mr. Kogler?”
The focus is on the “Association of European Youth / Young European Federalists (BEJ/JEF) Austria”, whose website has recently been offline. The current federal manager of this youth club is Kati Schneeberger. She is a Green district councilor in Vienna-Neubau and is running at number 7 on her party’s list for the 2024 EU elections. This organization is the youth association of the “European Federalist Movement (EFB)”, whose president is the ÖVP politician and member of parliament to the European Parliament Mag. Lukas Mandl is. He is also applying for entry into the EU Parliament in 2024 at number 5 on the list.
According to the answer to an FPÖ inquiry about club funding in autumn 2023, the “Association of European Youth / Young European Federalists (BEJ/JEF) Austria” received basic funding of €145,345.70 in 2022. In order to be able to claim funding of this amount, the association would have to have credibly demonstrated to the funding agency that it had a membership of 50,001 to 80,000 young people. With this number of members, this virtually unknown association would be in the area of the Evangelical Youth of Austria, the Catholic Youth of Austria or the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Austria.
It is difficult to believe that an association without a website and significant activities actually has over 50,000 members. Closer research also revealed that in three federal states (Vorarlberg, Lower Austria, Burgenland) the powers of representation of the association’s representatives have expired for over a year. The European umbrella organization of the “Young European Federalists Europe” claims to have over 30,000 members in over 30 countries in Europe. Schnedlitz: “The fact that the Austrian sub-organization has more members than the overall European organization does not seem realistic. It really smells like funding fraud here.”
The Greens have another big problem when it comes to decency. FPÖ General Secretary NAbg. Michael Schnedlitz: “What do the green party leaders actually say to you about this dubious funding issue? Werner Kogler is required to provide the appropriate clarification, because this matter seems to be anything but decent. And it is the decency that the Greens have adopted as their flag.”
The parliamentary question to Chancellor Nehammer on this funding case includes 41 questions and was submitted on May 8, 2024. The deadline for response is eight weeks.
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