Agenda Europe web site<\/a>, the gay rights network ILGA Europe receives most of its funding from the European Commission.<\/p>\nTo receive the funding, ILGA has to coordinate its planning with the commission, which means that \u201cthis self-described \u201cnon-governmental\u201d organization actually appears to be something like an outsourced Commission service.\u201d ILGA is legally more like a \u201cbody governed by public law,\u201d with a suitably cozy relationship to the Commission. But it\u2019s not accountable to the public because it is treated as an NGO.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the author\u2019s opinion, ILGA\u2019s work is \u201coutsourced probably in order to create a false imagery of \u2018civil society\u2019 and to conceal the Commission\u2019s direct influence over the organization.\u201d Sounds cynical, but it\u2019s a system that lends itself to cynicism.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Thanks to Paul Colman for pointing me to this article.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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