MEPs, staff broke rules by sending salary cash to party, watchdog finds
Members of the European Parliament and staffers broke rules by transferring part of their salaries to national political party coffers, the EU’s anti-fraud agency OLAF said Thursday. OLAF said that it...
View ArticleMEPs to Czech PM: Bow out of EU budget talks over conflicts of interest
An influential group of MEPs says Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš should refrain from participating in negotiations over the next long-term EU budget due to concerns over conflicts of interest. Babiš...
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The EU’s most powerful Germans
This article is part of a special report: Berlin in Brussels. The election of Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president was seen by many in Brussels as the naked confirmation of Germany’s...
View ArticleSenior EU official facing harassment case takes legal action
A senior EU official accused of psychological harassment and serious misconduct has hit back by launching legal action against the institution he works for. The European Economic and Social Committee...
View ArticleTop Polish MEP under investigation over travel expenses
Polish prosecutors have been given a case involving veteran MEP Ryszard Czarnecki — a former vice president of the European Parliament — over alleged irregularities concerning his travel expenses and...
View Article‘Chaos’ at EU body after official refuses to resign over harassment probe
An EU body bringing together workers and employers has been thrown into disarray after it emerged that a senior official who was deposed in June is refusing to step down. The European Economic and...
View ArticleEU’s fraud busters struggle with pandemic overload
The coronavirus pandemic has the EU’s anti-fraud investigators working overtime. The bloc’s anti-fraud agency is grappling with new challenges as counterfeiters work to flood the bloc with fake goods...
View ArticleEU official accused of harassment says he ‘lost to the bureaucracy’
WARSAW — A former candidate to head an EU body has slammed the inquiry that led to his resignation, denied ever having “consciously” harassed any of his staff and said he “lost to the bureaucracy.”...
View ArticleWhy Europe’s recovery plan won’t work — unless it tackles corruption first
Ioana Petrescu is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and a former Romanian finance minister. Plans cooked up in Brussels tend to...
View ArticleThe EU’s €140M ‘zombie committee’ faces pressure to reform
It costs upwards of €140 million a year to run, produces views on EU laws that few policymakers actually read, and has failed to deal with claims of “psychological harassment” by one of its senior...
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