The president of the European parliament, Martin Schulz, this week alerted Olaf, the EUs anti-corruption agency, after reportedly finding that 20 people who were being paid from the EU budget as parliamentary assistants to FN MEPs appeared in documents as officials of the partys national organisation structure in France.
The anti-fraud body must now decide if it will open an investigation to determine whether FN party workers took staff salaries from the EU while doing separate work for the national party in France.