Strasbourg, 18 April 2018 – Members of the European Parliament Delegation to Malta following the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia on October 16th 2017 request Maltese Police and prosecutorial authorities to broaden the scope of the criminal investigation and look seriously into people with motivation to order the journalist’ assassination. Three men were arrested in […]
Malta/Money-Laundering: “Daphne Project” revelations must spell end for implicated senior politicians
An international consortium of journalists has today published further revelations on the stories being investigated by the murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The reports come from the Daphne Project, which is following up on the work of the journalist. New leaks show that the Maltese anti-money laundering agency (FIAU) had reason to suspect that […]
EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova must not shirk her duty and put Serbia on the EU blacklist for money laundering
Members of the TAX3 special committee on financial crimes, tax evasion and tax avoidance decided Monday night to abandon a hearing with EU Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova, as she did not appear to the meeting and sent a civil servant to speak on her behalf although she was in the Parliament building. The Greens/EFA […]
Selmayr: European Parliament must end double standards
Just before Monday’s crucial vote in the budget control committee on the Selmayr resolution the Greens in the European Parliament have put forward suggestions how to make recruitment decisions in the Parliament more transparent and competitive. Green MEP Sven Giegold, Parliament’s rapporteur on “transparency, integrity and accountability of the EU institutions” commented: “The European […]
Selmayr: Amendments of all political groups
Dear journalists and correspondents, all political groups have now tabled their amendments to the tough draft resolution of the budget control committee on the appointment of Martin Selmayr. As a consequence of the hearing the resolution criticizes in unambigious terms the intransparent appointment procedure and calls for change. The amendments will be discussed in […]
Stop the extradition of whistleblower Hervé Falciani
Please sign our petition: https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/Whistleblower-Falciani-must-not-be-extradited-to-Switzerland Dear friends and supporters, Political change is often only possible with the help of courageous people like Edward Snowden or Antoine Deltour. On Wednesday the Spanish police arrested the Franco-Italian whistleblower Hervé Falciani. In the meantime, he has been released provisionally, but his passport has been confiscated and […]