New Ethics Body Could Be Misused to Harass MEPs
German MEP says deal would violate the separation of powers and endanger the independence of the legislative branch.
German MEP says deal would violate the separation of powers and endanger the independence of the legislative branch.
Officer in cafe melee tests positive for near-lethal levels of amphetamines
Populists are understandably concerned such an organisation could be politicised to spy against them.
Socialist MEP Marie Arena’s contacts with primary suspect Antonio Panzeri suggest she was an essential part of his network.
The socialist MEP’s son has also been implicated.
A German MEP scolded the socialists for dictating the tempo of post-Qatargate reforms considering their heavy involvement in the scandal.
The UAE was accused by a left-wing French journal of having hired a private Swiss intelligence agency to discredit opponents in Europe as part of a complex regional cold war with Qatar over support for Sunni extremism.
Belgian authorities confirmed to The European Conservative that they conducted raids on properties connected to Maria Arena after the Belgian socialist MEP resigned from her post on Parliament’s human rights committee.
It had come to authorities’ attention that the son of Michel Claise, the Belgian judge overseeing the investigation into corruption in the European parliament, runs a business with the son of socialist MEP Marie Arena.
Belgian police advised officials investigating the Qatargate scandal to keep their devices away from top-level meetings after Pegasus spyware was found on the phones of multiple officials.
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