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EU Money Monitor is Europe’s first citizen-powered platform tracking where EU funds go, where transparency stops, and who is accountable.

REPORT:
10 years of OLAF fraud investigations and EU’s untouchables

Belgium, recipient of over €31 billion in EU funds, has just four (4) OLAF fraud investigations in a decade. Meanwhile, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy and Poland rack up over 540 combined cases. Coincidence or strategy? Investigating the EU’s untouchable funding beneficiaries and the real numbers behind Europe’s fraud oversight.

COMING SOON:
The EU’s invisible fraud epidemic – inside EPPO’s 4.212 case dismissals

Inside the EU’s best-kept secret: the untold story of how EPPO filtered out 64% of citizen fraud complaints - and what it means for democracy, accountability, and the future of EU justice.

COMING SOON

INVESTIGATION:
Brussels - how EU funds disappear behind the walls of ‘Non-Profits’

Meet Jan van Graabgold (a fictionalized name), the €25K-a-month NGO Director. He invoiced €21,352 per month through his private company in 2022 — absorbing nearly 45% of the organisation’s total EU-funded human resources budget.

INVESTIGATION:
Fraud? What fraud? Inside Europe’s institutional blindness

You raise the alarm. You gather the evidence. You knock on every door. And still — nothing moves. In Belgium, a country entrusted with Europe’s moral and financial heart, red flags disappear into files. Into silence. Into a system designed not to protect the public interest, but to protect itself.

Power to the people.
Protection for all.
Progress without corruption.

Today, that promise is at risk. Because too many institutions forgot who they work for.

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Understanding EU Direct Management funding

Direct management EU-28 (2014 to 2023)

Based on the Financial Transparency System data reported by the European Commission, including UK as it is among TOP 28 (06.01.2025).

Direct management funding: European Commission directly handles all implementation steps without intermediaries, maintaining full control and responsibility through financing agreements and compliance checks.

Click on individual countries in the visualization to explore detailed breakdowns, to understand EU-wide patterns. Chart built on FTS data on 06.01.2025.

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Funding breakdown by beneficiary country - TOP 28

The analysis reveals that within the EU-28’s 71,821 “private companies” receiving €122.44 billion from 2014 to 2023 (FTS data on 06.01.2025):

➤ 26,759 NFPOs receiving €42.52 billion

➤ 8,987 NGOs receiving €19.66 billion

ⓘ Leaving 36,075 actual private companies receiveing €60.26 billion

Stacked Bar Chart - EU Funding

The silent battle – Whistleblowing

[...] This is Brussels, after all. EU funding, prestigious organizations, powerful boards filled with corporate leaders. They’ve made it crystal clear: you’re nobody. Just a small piece in a massive puzzle. The corporations, CEOs, directors – “we play in a different league” – you were told this over and over again for years.
The message between the lines is razor-sharp: stay silent, stay small… stay safe. Or else.

REPORT:
10 years of OLAF fraud investigations and EU’s untouchables

COMING SOON:
The EU’s invisible fraud epidemic – inside EPPO’s 4.212 case dismissals

INVESTIGATION:
Brussels - how EU funds disappear behind the walls of ‘Non-Profits’

INVESTIGATION:
Fraud? What fraud? Inside Europe’s institutional blindness

Europe was built on a promise:

Power to the people.
Protection for all.
Progress without corruption.

Today, that promise is at risk. Because too many institutions forgot who they work for.

🛡️ How we stay accountable

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Understanding EU Direct Management funding

Direct management EU-28 (2014 to 2023)

Funding breakdown by beneficiary country - TOP 28

The silent battle – Whistleblowing

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REPORT: 10 years of OLAF fraud investigations and EU’s untouchables

COMING SOON: The EU’s invisible fraud epidemic – inside EPPO’s 4.212 case dismissals

INVESTIGATION: Brussels - how EU funds disappear behind the walls of ‘Non-Profits’

INVESTIGATION: Fraud? What fraud? Inside Europe’s institutional blindness

Europe was built on a promise:

Power to the people. Protection for all. Progress without corruption.

Today, that promise is at risk. Because too many institutions forgot who they work for.

🛡️ How we stay accountable

Top most read:

Last published:

Understanding EU Direct Management funding

Direct management EU-28 (2014 to 2023)

Funding breakdown by beneficiary country - TOP 28

The silent battle – Whistleblowing

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REPORT:
10 years of OLAF fraud investigations and EU’s untouchables

COMING SOON:
The EU’s invisible fraud epidemic – inside EPPO’s 4.212 case dismissals

INVESTIGATION:
Brussels - how EU funds disappear behind the walls of ‘Non-Profits’

INVESTIGATION:
Fraud? What fraud? Inside Europe’s institutional blindness

Power to the people.
Protection for all.
Progress without corruption.