Former members of the European Parliament might be banned from lobbying in Brussels and Strasbourg for six months after leaving workplace, beneath plans endorsed by political leaders at a closed-door assembly Wednesday evening. Roberta Metsola, the center-right Maltese Parliament chief, floated an preliminary 14-point record of reforms to beef up …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola declared 142 gifts she received on a public register for MEPs, in a move that laid bare the limited transparency rules at the EU institution. Metsola, a Maltese MEP from the center-right European People’s …
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First, it was famous names on the board who quit. Now, Qatargate suspect Pier Antonio Panzeri’s human rights nongovernmental organization is facing the loss of a major donor. That donor, the Human Rights Foundation, is looking to claw back some of the €600,000 euros it gave to Fight Impunity, the …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. European Parliament members could be barred from lobbying for two years after leaving office under a revamp of the body’s lobbying and transparency rules set to be proposed this week by Parliament President Roberta Metsola, whose institution is reeling …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Maria Arena is blaming her secretary. The Socialist MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s human rights committee, accepted a trip to Qatar — and then failed to declare properly that the Qatari government paid for her flights and hotel, …
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Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Belgian investigators asked the European Parliament to waive the immunity of two extra MEPs suspected of wrongdoing amid a sprawling corruption scandal linked to alleged bribery by Qatar and Morocco. Socialists & Democrats lawmakers Marc Tarabella, a Belgian …
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Famend Congolese physician and Nobel Prize winner Denis Mukwege on Monday performed down his position at one of many NGOs ensnared within the snowballing Brussels lobbying scandal involving alleged bribes from Qatar and Morocco. Mukwege, well-known for treating survivors of sexual violence at his Panzi Hospital within the Democratic Republic …
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