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 […]
Whistleblower Protection: Whistleblower Falciani deserves European medal instead of imprisonment
Yesterday, French-Italian whistleblower Hervé Falciani was arrested in Spain. Falciani worked as an IT specialist at the Swiss spin-off of HSBC. In 2006 and 2007 he passed on the data of more than 100,000 wealthy clients to the then French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde. The French government shared the data with its EU counterparts […]
Selmayr: Tough draft resolution by the Parliament
After a lively hearing with Commissioner Günther Oettinger the budgetary control committee of the European Parliament has put forward a tough draft resolution 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 resolution is now open to […]
Skripal case: EU countries should commit themselves to European values instead of being seduced by Russian money
A majority of EU Member States, in response to the Skripal case, have expelled Russian diplomatic intelligence officials from their countries, thereby expressing their solidarity with Britain. Unfortunately, ten countries are not participating in the European action: Austria, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Belgium and Portugal. MEP Sven Giegold, spokesperson of the […]
Money laundering: Members of the European Parliament call on the ECB to investigate Maltese banking sector
Members from all major political groups in the European Parliament are calling in a letter to ECB President Mario Draghi to investigate whether the severe allegations of money laundering against Pilatus Bank warrant the withdrawal of the authorisation and whether the business model of other Maltese credit institutions pose risks stemming from financial criminality. […]