Czech intelligence services say they have unmasked an influence network financed by Moscow. The BIS claims that the influence of this network extended “as far as the European Parliament” “Russia approached MEPs but also paid to promote Russian propaganda, these are parliamentarians receiving money,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told the Belgian House of Representatives.

“The “Voice of Europe” scandal shows once again that junk patriots of the extreme right are a fifth column in the service of Putin,’ castigated socialist MEP Raphaël Glucksmann.