Next Tuesday, the Christian-Democratic Group of CDU and CSU in the Bundestag will decide to effectively reject the EU Commission’s proposal to establish a European Monetary Fund (EMF). The decision will be taken at the same time when French President Macron defends his proposals in an eagerly awaited speech in the European Parliament. The EU […]
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 […]
Greens: Mark Zuckerberg has to appear personally in the European Parliament
Tonight and tomorrow, Facebook-CEO Mark Zuckerberg will answer questions of a US Congress committee on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. However, Zuckerberg declined an invitation to the UK House of Commons. Therefore, Sven Giegold and Jan Philipp Albrecht wrote to European Parliament President Antonio Tajani that the Parliament should insist on inviting Mark Zuckerberg personally to […]
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 […]
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 […]