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Ingeborg Graessle is in charge of overseeing how the EU spends taxpayers' money (Photo: European Parliament)

EP budget chair seeks clarity on Saudi lobbying and College of Europe

The EU-funded College of Europe must clarify its financial ties to Saudi Arabia, the chair of a powerful European Parliament (EP) budgetary committee has said.

The demand follows revelations last week by this website that the Saudis had paid the College of Europe to meet MEPs in a closed-door briefing at the EP as part of what the post-graduate institute describes as an "information or training exercise".

"This is clearly a...

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