Other health NGOs have had to take similarly dramatic cost-cutting measures after learning no grants from the Commission would arrive this year. Last week, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), one of the biggest health NGO networks in Brussels, confirmed<\/a> it would cut five of its 13 staff.<\/p>\n The European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare) is also in danger of losing two of its four staff, Anamaria Suciu, policy and advocacy manager, told POLITICO. The Commission\u2019s operating grant typically accounts for 60 percent of Eurocare\u2019s funding in a given year, she said.<\/p>\n The European Patients\u2019 Forum, meanwhile, hasn\u2019t had to make staff redundant but morale is low, spokesperson Flavia Topan said. \u201cThe uncertainty and instability in funding take a real toll, both on our muscle to bring the patient voice to the center of EU health policy and on the wellbeing of our employees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Brussels is an increasingly inhospitable environment for NGOs since the European election last year. Under a right-wing majority led by the European People\u2019s Party, lawmakers such as the European People’s Party\u2019s Dirk Gotink \u2014 appointed<\/a> to head a probe into NGO funding on Wednesday \u2014 claim<\/a> NGOs have used European money to \u201cshadow lobby\u201d for green policies. A POLITICO fact-check<\/a> found little evidence for shadowy lobbying, however. EU funding is publicly disclosed and allows NGOs to counter the lobbying activities of better-resourced private interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUPHA is one of 30 health NGOs that signed agreements with the European Commission outlining their planned activities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,2071,5074,7094,137,500,7095,7096,7097,1836],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgium","tag-democracy","tag-eu-funding","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-lobbying","tag-ngos","tag-prevention","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2043717130-1024x557.jpg\")
Other health NGOs have had to take similarly dramatic cost-cutting measures after learning no grants from the Commission would arrive this year. | Andreas Arnold\/Picture Alliance via Getty Images<\/p>\n