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EU Fish Fund Accused of Bribery in Indian Ocean
The EU is attempting to use sustainability funding to influence developing nations against new fishing regulations that challenge European dominance of the tuna sector.
The EU is attempting to use sustainability funding to influence developing nations against new fishing regulations that challenge European dominance of the tuna sector.
Standardized corruption rules could be coming for all member states, although Brussels might have a hard time getting countries to accept further erosion of their sovereignty.
If the big political parties do not change their policies on a wide range of issues, such as the green agenda, economic competitiveness, or migration, they will see the consequences at the 2024 elections.
The report lends credence to the belief that the EU seeks to use post-Qatargate reforms to harass dissenting MEPs, banning them from speaking against EU foreign policy missions while overseas.
Sardone alleges that the climate NGO Clean Air Task Force has been dictating EU environmental legislation behind the backs of lawmakers.
Among other regulations, former MEPs will not be allowed to lobby legislators for six months after leaving the EU lawmaking body.
Our hope is that the investigations that we have planned for the coming months will lead to a cleaning of the Augean stables among other parties and organizations—for the vices common to today’s political class are common to man.
Sources close to the situation have indicated that files have been brought to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and Krah’s immunity is likely to be lifted on the basis of the original investigation by the EU anti-fraud agency OLAF.
In Brussels, transparency rules are welcome only as long as they target conservatives, as foreign-funded NGOs fear that by forcing them to disclose their sources of revenue, the Commission will let “illiberal forces stigmatize” civil society.
The raid has affected the EPP’s tense office politics amid a larger pushback against plans to take the group to the Right ahead of the 2024 elections.
The raid relates to a corruption case against top EPP official Mario Voigt, with allegations that the CDU politician awarded a contract to design an EPP campaign app on the basis of bribery.
Centrist parties need a coalition pact, the Renew leader said, that would guarantee them top EU positions and prevent any right-wing alliance.
Hololei resigned from his top position in the transport department and will move to a new role within the Commission despite accusations of unethical behaviour.
MEPs-turned-lobbyists will have a harder time getting back to business under the new rules aimed to curb corruption in Brussels in the fallout of Qatargate.
The EU cannot guarantee that hundreds of billions of euros from its joint pandemic recovery fund were not wasted or lost on corruption, says the European Court of Auditors.
Instead of a third party, Hololei himself was the only official to sign off on accepting junkets to Qatar—while he negotiated a controversial aviation deal with the Qatari government.
Freedom of information requests reveal that senior EU transport official Henrik Hololei enjoyed trips to Qatar while he and his office were negotiating a controversial open skies agreement with the Gulf state.
The prosecutor’s office confirmed that the seizures had nothing to do with the separate Qatargate scandal.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini brandished the plans as economic suicide and insinuated that EU legislators had been influenced by Chinese lobbyists.
Calls for transparency in the EU institutions are only growing louder in the wake of Qatargate. As such, this new decision for private questioning will damage the credibility of the EU Parliament.
Green MEP Jutta Paulus has denied pasting the document on methane emissions regulations into the draft legal text, as MEPs look to tighten rules on lobbyists in the Parliament.
“The credibility of the European Parliament is practically zero,” Szijjártó declared, adding that “the latest corruption issues have clearly shown that we are speaking about one of the world’s most corrupt organizations.”
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