Officials are focusing on cleaning up the Parliament, the EU’s only directly elected institution seen as the bloc's weakest link when it comes to ethics and integrity
Officials are focusing on cleaning up the Parliament, the EU’s only directly elected institution seen as the bloc’s weakest link when it comes to ethics and integrity
With the investigation continuing to throw up new leads, the focus now is on cleaning up the Parliament, seen as the EU’s weakest link when it comes to ethics and integrity.The lurid details of the scandal would not look out of place in a rejected Hollywood script. Six suspects have been jailed,one of the Parliament’s 14 Vice Presidents. In raids of various homes, offices and hotel rooms in Brussels, Belgian police recovered more than €1.
However, for all the venal outside forces that Ms Metsola evoked, it is the Parliament, the EU’s only directly elected institution, that is now facing the toughest questions. “The Parliament has over decades fostered a culture of impunity, through a combination of lax financial controls and a complete lack of independent ethical oversight,” says Michiel van Hulten, the director of Transparency International’s Brussels office and a former MEP.
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