The ITCO intergroup urgently calls on the EPP, S&D and ALDE groups to no longer block the vote on the transparency report, so the European Parliament can vote in favour of more transparency and integrity in the EU. A majority of EPP, S&D and ALDE blocked this week’s vote on the report on Transparency, Accountability […]
Financial Services: First corrective detention class for the Commission – European Parliament rejects rules for complex financial products (PRIIPs)
Currently, European Parliament, Commission and Council are in the course of implementing a crucial pillar of financial service regulation: the rules for a key information document (KID) for retail financial products, which European Parliament and Council adopted in 2014 under the regulation on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (“PRIIPs regulation”). […]
Conservatives blocking lobby transparency and moves to sanction conflicts of interest in the European Parliament
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 […]
Goldman Sachs hires Barroso: Longer ‘cooling-off period’ for EU Commissioners urgently needed
Goldman Sachs announced today that it has hired former EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso as an advisor and non-executive chairman of its international business. MEP Sven Giegold, Rapporteur in the European Parliament for the Initiative Report “Transparency, accountability and integrity in the EU institutions”, commented: “These shameful revolving doors between politics and business […]
First success against Bayer Monsanto Deal: Commission assures thorough assessment
Dear colleagues, In the light of the planned acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer, already more than 36,000 EU citizens demand of the European Commission that: “The instruments of European merger control must be applied fully, and thoroughly.” The European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager has now responded to our letter to her and promised […]