<title>EU to fund Free Software code review</title>
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<h1id="eu-to-fund-free-software-code-review">EU to fund Free Software code review</h1>
<h1class="p-name"id="eu-to-fund-free-software-code-review">EU to fund Free Software code review</h1>
<pnewsteaser="yes">The European Parliament has approved funding for several projects related to Free Software and privacy. In the <ahref="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/data/DB2/2015/en/SEC03.pdf">EU budget for 2015</a>, which the European Parliament <ahref="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20141027STO76315/html/Parliament-approves-EU-budget-for-2015-and-a-top-up-for-2014">adopted</a> on December 17, the Parliamentarians have allocated up to one million Euro for a project to audit Free Software programs in use at the Commission and the Parliament in order to identify and fix security vulnerabilities.</p>