Economics
Austria Freedom Party Politician Gives to Tory-Linked European Group
- 88,000 euros went to group that also includes Poland’s PiS
- Freedom Party’s Barbara Kolm is deputy central bank president
Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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A politician from Austria’s nationalist Freedom Party and her entourage have emerged as unlikely donors to a pan-European political group that includes the U.K. Conservatives and Poland’s Law and Justice party.
A consultancy managed by Barbara Kolm, a libertarian economist whom the Freedom Party installed in the Austrian central bank’s General Council, as well as four individuals with links to the consultancy or to Kolm’s research institute donated to the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe, or ACRE, according to a filing to the European Parliament.