Month-to-month allowances given to MEPs to pay for workplace provides have been used to buy shares within the arms, tobacco, mining and fossil-fuels industries to finance a heavily-indebted European Parliament pension scheme. This included tens of hundreds of shares in a US-arms business that manufactured cluster munitions, banned by a …

Wojciech Wiewiórowski is a 51-year outdated Polish nationwide whose job because the EU’s knowledge safety supervisor (EDPS) is to make sure that European establishments and our bodies respect peoples’ proper to privateness and data-protection. But these rights are frequently denied to hundreds of individuals in search of asylum within the …

Greek socialist Eva Kaili is about to lose her seat as vice-president of the European Parliament after being arrested and charged with corruption in an affair linked to Qatari affect peddling. Political group leaders within the so-called convention of presidents are assembly on Tuesday (13 December) to debate her removing …

The European Parliament voted in opposition to together with allegations of Morocco influence-peddling on a Qatar decision that additionally demanded the necessity for broader transparency and accountability within the European establishments. An amendment (31) in the resolution tabled by the Left mentioned that Morocco could have additionally been making an …

Former EU commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos held conferences with EU fee vice-presidents at a time when he was being paid by Struggle Impunity, an NGO linked to the Qatari corruption allegations. In a press release on Tuesday (20 December), the European Fee mentioned his current conferences held between Vera Jourova and …

Within the wake of the biggest corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament in over a decade, its president Roberto Metsola blamed “malign actors linked to autocratic third nations” after Belgian police discovered luggage of money on the residence of vice-president Eva Kaili. However the parliament, and particularly its Bureau, …

A “metaverse gala” occasion organised for the European Fee in November attracted solely a handful of confused ballon-like avatars. The gala was part of €387,000 metaverse mission, financed by the European Fee’s international help division, to get younger folks within the EU by means of a so-called International Gateway marketing …