The ADDE also used EU funds for polling ahead of the Scottish and Welsh elections in 2016, the report said. The report names three Ukip party workers who were given contracts to run Ukip opinion polls said to be funded by EU money. The committee, chaired by European parliament president, Martin Schulz, is expected to approve the request for repayment. In this case, a Dutch political party is accused of misspending EU funds on a referendum in the Netherlands. Ukip spokesman Gawain Towler rejected the report’s central claim that the party and ADDE group had failed to comply with EU rules.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 11:04 UTC