Yeah, if an app posts any kind of notification it definitely needs background usage permission.

Well yeah, “they” being the VP of the FN :)

Here you go. My translation of the email :

During the upcoming years we will only make it if we make substantial savings thanks to the European parliament, and if we manage to get additional subsidies.

It’s just not a bookkeeping error, there are internal emails where they state that they wouldn’t be able to keep the lights on without paying their staff with our taxes.