Case T-1189/23: Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Patriotes.eu v Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundation (Law governing the institutions – Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations – Decision imposing a financial sanction on a political party – Article 27(2)(a)(vi) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 – Non-contractual liability)
Date: 2025-09-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: damages, political parties, sanction (EU)








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C/2025/5695


3.11.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Patriotes.eu v Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundation


(Case T-1189/23)
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(Law governing the institutions - Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations - Decision imposing a financial sanction on a political party - Article 27(2)(a)(vi) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 - Non-contractual liability)
(C/2025/5695)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Patriotes.eu, formerly Identité et Démocratie Parti (ID Parti) (Paris, France) (represented by: P. Prigent, lawyer)

Defendant: Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (represented by: P. Schonard and N. Entchev, acting as Agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: S. Alves and J.-C. Puffer, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Bauer and L. Atzeni, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher and S. Pardo Quintillán, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action, the applicant seeks, first, on the basis of Article 263 TFEU, the annulment of the decision of the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (‘the Authority’) of 25 October 2023, by which the Authority imposed on it a financial sanction under Article 27(2)(a)(vi) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (OJ 2014 L 317, p. 1) and, second, on the basis of Article 268 TFEU, compensation for the damage which it claims to have suffered as a result of the adoption of that decision.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Annuls the decision of the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations of 25 October 2023, by which that authority imposed a financial sanction on Patriotes.eu, formerly Identité et Démocratie Parti (ID Parti), under Article 27(2)(a)(vi) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations;










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Dismisses the action as to the remainder;










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Orders Patriotes.eu and the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations to bear their own costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures;










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Orders the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission each to bear their own costs.






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            OJ C, C/2024/2166, 25.3.2024.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5695/oj
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