Whistleblowers should be better protected in the future. The European Commission presented its draft directive today. It takes up key demands of the Greens/EFA Group, which took the initiative for better protection of whistleblowers against the background of the trial against the LuxLeaks whistleblower Antoine Deltour on 4 May 2016. Greens/EFA had also presented an […]
EU-Register for Lobbyists: Giegold demands transparent transparency negotiations
Tuesday evening, 17 April 2018, EU Commission, European Parliament and Council met for the first negotiation on the EU Transparency Register on the political level. The meeting led to a hard confrontation: While the Commission delivered ambitious lip services intending to make the Transparency Register “mandatory”, neither Parliament nor Council offered enough to make this […]
Malta: European Parliament will respond forcefully
As a reaction to new revelations on the rule of law in Malta the European Parliament’s mission to Malta has just met on my initiative this morning in Strasbourg. We decided: to ask for a meeting with our own Conference of Presidents with a view to a debate the situation with the EU Commission and […]
MEPs want broadening of the scope of inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder
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 […]
ECB delegitimises its own independence
Today, the ECB published its decision on the recommendations by the EU Ombudswoman Emily O’Reilly. The Ombudswoman recommended that the ECB terminates Mario Draghi’s membership of the Group of Thirty (G30), an intransparent association of managers of big banks, central bankers and some academics. Emily O’Reilly followed a complaint from the NGO Corporate Observatory (CEO). […]