16 days ago
POLITICO.eu
**MISSED OPPORTUNITY: There’s been a drumbeat of reminders that the European Parliament doesn’t hold itself to broader European standards when it comes to corruption prevention. As with the inter-institutional ethics body, the Parliament certainly isn’t the only institution holding up EU membership in GRECO. There’s no written evidence of this exception, but it is true that pretty much no Parliament president has bothered to list their goodies. Panzeri’s report prompted Poland to be tarred as fascist in the European Parliament. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT— Marc Angel, a Socialists & Democrats MEP from Luxembourg, was just elected to take over MEP Eva Kaili’s Parliament vice president spot.
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