Brussels correspondent
This is one of the extensions of "Qatargate", this corruption scandal that caught up, in December 2022, members and former members of the European Parliament, suspected of having received large sums of money from Morocco and Qatar, in return for decisions favorable to these two countries. The EU will have an ethics body common to all its institutions. That is nine in total, or even ten if the European Investment Bank, which is not considered an institution in the Treaties, also takes the plunge.
The outlines of this new structure, promised in 2019 by the candidate for the presidency of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen, then fallen into limbo, were presented on Thursday... after several successive postponements. According to Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova, there was an urgent need to get it on track. The European elections are less than a year away and, according to the latest Eurobarometer published earlier this week, only...
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