Belgian socialist MEP Marc Tarabella denies receiving any cash or gifts from the graft network, but the parliament is mulling stripping him of his immunity from criminal investigation.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/turncoat-suspect-blows-open-eu-parliament-graft-probe-3226531?cid=cna_flip_070214

But Romanian MEP Ramona Strugariu -- one of the lawmakers in charge of the issue -- insisted it meant governments were "effectively banned" from using spyware to probe the work of journalists.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231003-eu-lawmakers-vote-to-bolster-media-freedom

David Campbell Bannerman, the former MEP and chairman added: “This is down to Rishi — the plot against Boris and ineffective leadership when this Tory Macbeth seized the Tory crown.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23506161.labour-insists-can-form-majority-government/?ref=rss

From there, he went to work as an assistant for Panzeri, who was then an MEP.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-corruption-scandal-qatargate-police-interviews-pier-antonio-panzeri-francesco-giorgi-eva-kaili-andrea-cozzolino/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

Grech was reacting in a radio interview to Labour MEP Alex Agius Saliba's request for the EU to investigate Maltese food importers for antitrust violations.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/pn-wants-help-businesses-pl-wants-blame-them-grech-says.1059984

Greek MEP Eva Kaili, a 44-year-old former newsreader and then one of the vice presidents of the EU's only elected body, quickly became the public face of the scandal - but Panzeri was said to be the ringleader.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/turncoat-suspect-blows-open-eu-parliament-graft-probe-3226531?cid=cna_flip_070214

His lawyer Maxim Töller told POLITICO that the Belgian MEP was transferred to the prison of St. Gilles in Brussels and that he would be heard on Thursday in a pre-trial hearing, which the Belgian prosecutor’s spokesperson also confirmed.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-mep-marc-tarabella-charged-in-qatargate-probe/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

In France, former justice minister and MEP Rachida Dati a vocal advocate for establishing closer ties with Baku.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-union-sanctions-azerbaijan-armenia-conflict-meps/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

“I think he deliberately did not come, because he did not want to face the controversies,” one French MEP, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir, is reported as saying.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/01/15/brussels-mulls-banning-pfizer-officials-from-european-parliament/

MEP Martin Hojsík and the Animal Ombudsman initiative are demanding that the authorities cancel the order to kill 16 felines, if any have been issued, arguing that it is the state, not the animals, that has failed in this case.

Source: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23170642/lions-kill-farmer-slovakia.html

Most bricks made in Malta do not meet European Union safety standards because the government has failed to implement the rules, MEP candidate Peter Agius has claimed.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/most-maltese-bricks-meet-eu-safety-standards-peter-agius.1062564

“My life is ruined, my image is ruined,” the Italian MEP told police.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-corruption-scandal-qatargate-police-interviews-pier-antonio-panzeri-francesco-giorgi-eva-kaili-andrea-cozzolino/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

Pascal Canfin, a French centrist MEP and the chairman of the parliament's environment committee, said the new biotechnology could "be part of the useful solutions for the agricultural transition" if they help avoid using chemical pesticides.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-eu-food-gene-edited-crops.html

The former MEP further warned: "We either have the courage to break with the EU and take control of our own country, in which case Brussels is going to be upset.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1719350/brexit-news-uk-eu-deal-northern-ireland-protocol-cleverly-sefcovic-meeting

The Hungarian MEP gave an address at the session which discussed a report prepared by a special committee set up by the EP in March last year to assess the lessons learnt from the coronavirus pandemic and recommendations for the future.

Source: https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/fidesz-mep-indicates-delay-in-europes-response-to-coronavirus-pandemic/

The imminent release of Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella will mean former European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili is the last suspect still held in custody awaiting eventual trial on corruption charges.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/belgian-mep-eu-graft-probe-released-house-arrest.1024784

The issue was flagged last Thursday by MEP candidate Peter Agius, who said free-to-air television would be no more, come March.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/tv-aerial-transmission-retained-government.1014546

"There have been calls from outside and inside the Parliament for a ban or classifying ChatGPT as high-risk," said MEP Svenja Hahn.

Source: https://www.gadgets360.com/internet/news/chatgpt-generative-ai-eu-lawmakers-struggle-finalise-law-regulation-chatbot-3990167

“The state belongs to us ten million Hungarian citizens,” Dobrev, a party MEP, said at the first event in a series organised by DK’s “shadow government”.

Source: https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/dobrev-dks-task-ahead-is-to-take-back-the-state/

Tributes have been paid to former MEP and Labour minister Glenys Kinnock, who has died at the age of 79.

Source: https://caerphilly.observer/news/1031507/tributes-paid-after-death-of-former-labour-minister-glenys-kinnock/