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One in Five EU Lawmakers Broke Same Rule as Le Pen Accused of, Almost All Avoided Punishment: Report
2025-04-02
Answering the question we’ve been discussing here.
[Breitbart] ....While the EU has never released a full accounting of all parliamentarians accused of the same misconduct as Le Pen was found guilty of, a 2023 report from the Follow the Money website found that between 2019 and 2022, 139 Members of European Parliament (MEPs), or around one in five members at the time, had been found to have broken the same rules, the Times of London noted on Tuesday.

Yet, according to the report, just one MEP, Eva Kaili, a Greek socialist and former Vice-President of the European Parliament, has faced an actual investigation during the time period studied. However, Kaili was already under heavy scrutiny over her alleged role in the Qatar-gate scandal in which leftist EU parliamentarians have been accused of accepting bribes from the Islamic kingdom, allegedly in exchange for promoting Qatari interests in Strasbourg.

The report found that the other 138 MEPs were merely instructed to return the misused funds to the EU Parliament before criminal charges could be brought.

There have been claims that the rules are enforced selectively, and particularly against politicians who have been critical of the European Union or its Parliament. Indeed, Brexit leader and former MEP Nigel Farage was a notable example of a Eurosceptic politician who had faced investigation for allegedly using EU funds on other expenses and was reportedly ordered to pay back £35,000 to the EU.
Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed

#3  Fitting, the Soviets have a term for this:

телефонное право
telefonnoe pravo

Telephone Law. Pick up the phone, call a judge, make an arrest. Europeans are the new Soviets.
Posted by: mossomo   2025-04-02 14:01  

#2  Le Pen should have known better than to take any money at all from those bastards.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-04-02 12:50  

#1  Oh my, EC, how could this be? Selective prosecution in France?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2025-04-02 12:24  

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