Economics
Austrian Group at Heart of EU Nationalist Funding Draws Scrutiny
- Nationalists got U.S. conservative groups’ funding in the past
- Austrian group has worked closely with U.S. think tanks
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An Austrian group that lists U.S. conservative entities like the Heritage Foundation and the Atlas Network among its partners is at the heart of a brewing scandal on how an alliance of Europe’s nationalists is funded.
Conservative and libertarian think tanks in the U.S. have contributed to the coffers of the alliance for years. When funding from outside the European Union became illegal last year, the Austrian group, whose partners are the same U.S. institutes, stepped into the breach to donate more money. Now, Austria’s prosecutors are looking into the group’s practices.