The Constitutional affairs committee was invited to vote Monday 12 September on the report for ‘Transparency, Accountability and Integrity in the EU institutions’. Yet the Conservatives (EPP) asked for a postponement of the vote and eventually received the support of Liberals and Social Democrats. The Grand Coalition in the Committee postponed the vote without setting […]
Conservatives are blocking lobby transparency and sanctioning conflicts of interest in the European Parliament: invitation to telephone press conference Tue 13 Sep 11:30h
The Constitutional affairs committee was supposed to vote today, Monday 12 September, on my report including more lobby transparency and stricter rules for the integrity of Members of the European Parliament. The draft compromises included a ‘legislative footprint’ and empowering the ethics committee of the European Parliament which so far had no effects. The conservatives […]