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|text=A fourth Euro MP caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal has denied wrongdoing as the European Parliament investigates corruption allegations. Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba said he had been "deceived" by the Sunday Times undercover reporters and had not accepted their offer of cash.
 
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Dozens of EU MPs have been caught in corrupt actions, according to a BBC report from 2010.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12880701</ref>
 
The European Parliament refused to cooperate with an [[EU ]]institutional-wide study on integrity and ethics by Transparency International, one of the [[world]]'s most prestigious anti-corruption [[NGOs]], since 2014.<ref>https://euobserver.com/eu-political/150832</ref>
 
The European Parliament refused to cooperate with an [[EU ]]institutional-wide study on integrity and ethics by Transparency International, one of the [[world]]'s most prestigious anti-corruption [[NGOs]], since 2014.<ref>https://euobserver.com/eu-political/150832</ref>
  
 
==Gladio==
 
==Gladio==
On November 22, 1990 the European Parliament debated [[Operation Gladio]], producing a strongly worded resolution calling for an investigation. However, this was never followed through. Summarising the procedure, [[Daniele Ganser]] writes that "The dog barked loudly, but it did not bite. Of the eight actions requested by the EU parliament not one was carried out satisfactorily. Only [[Belgium]], [[Italy, and [[Switzerland]] investigated their secret armies with a parliamentary commission, producing a lengthy and detailed public report."<ref>Daniele Ganser, pp. 23–24</ref>
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On November 22, 1990 the European Parliament debated [[Operation Gladio]], producing a strongly worded resolution calling for an investigation. However, this was never followed through. Summarising the procedure, [[Daniele Ganser]] writes that "The dog barked loudly, but it did not bite. Of the eight actions requested by the EU parliament not one was carried out satisfactorily. Only [[Belgium]], [[Italy]], and [[Switzerland]] investigated their secret armies with a parliamentary commission, producing a lengthy and detailed public report."<ref>Daniele Ganser, pp. 23–24</ref>
  
  
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Latest revision as of 11:49, 4 June 2024

Group.png European Parliament  
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Parent organizationEuropean Union
LeaderPresident of the European Parliament
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SubpageEuropean Parliament/2024 Election
European Parliament/President
The parliament of the EU. Does not have a lot of actual power.

The European Parliament is the parliament of the countries of the EU. It has a abysmal track record for tackling corruption and has played a role in covering up the continent their deep state cover-ups, such as with Operation Gladio, participating in CIA Black site programs and being vulnerable to deep lobbying.

Official Narrative

Estranged brother of WS, Wikipedia wrote; ""The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal of the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India) with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters in 2009. (...) Although the European Parliament has legislative power, as does the Council, it does not formally possess the right of initiative as most national parliaments of the member states do, with the right of initiative only being a prerogative of the European Commission.[1]

Bilderberg

So far 54 EU MPs have visited Bilderberg at least once:

 Bilderberg meetingsDescription
Enzo Bettiza1Anti-communist Moscow correspondent and editor who attended the 1974 Bilderberg Meeting. Later Europhile politician.
Barend Biesheuvel11968 Bilderberg. Dutch PM 1971-73
Pieter Blaisse6Dutch politician who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst3Dutch politician & lawyer who attended the 1970 and 1974 Bilderbergs
Christophe Béchu1Single Bilderberg French politician who by 2022 had become Minister for Ecological Transition
Luigi Caligaris1Single Bilderberger Italian officer, later politician
Antonio Cariglia1Italian politician acquitted after a 12 years court case in relation to Mani pulite.
Maria Carrilho1Portuguese pro-EU and pro-NATO politician and academic. Attended Bilderberg/1995.
Frederick Catherwood1UK business executive and MP who attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Efthimios Christodoulou1Greek Bilderberg businessman and central banker who attended Bilderberg/1990.
Jean Pierre Cot1Swiss law professor & politician. Attended the 1977 Bilderberg aged 39, possibly connected to "attitudes towards the Third World's demands for restructuring the world order"
José Manuel Torres Couto1Portuguese politician and trade union leader.
Simon Coveney2Single Bilderberger Irish politician
Pat Cox1Attended the 2001 Bilderberg as Leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group and an MEP
João Cardona G. Cravinho1Portuguese government minister who attended the 1999 Bilderberg
Elisa Ferreira1Appointed European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms by Ursula von der Leyen in December 2019. In 2020 was helping to fight Covid with emergency spending
Sylvie Goulard1French politician who attended the 2016 Bilderberg. Deputy Governor of the Bank of France since 2018
Bernard Guetta1French journalist and editor, and MEP. Supported the official narrative from a "leftist" angle during the Cold War, the Arab Spring, the deep state drive for European supranational integration; and the New Cold War. French-American Foundation/Young Leader. Bilderberg/1998.
Eero Heinäluoma1Transatlantic Finnish politician. Groomed as successor Prime Minister, but failed in elections.
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert1Dutch Defence Minister, connected to the 2015 Hawija bombing, lied about knowledge of any deaths and covered-up any juridical complicity with Mark Rutte & Bert Koenders.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne1Member of both Le Cercle and the 1001 Club.
Kaja Kallas1Estonian politician
Panayotis Lambrias1Assistant Minister to the Office of the Greek Prime Minister
Enrico Letta1Single Bilderberg. Prime Minister of Italy
Staffan Burenstam Linder1Wallenberg Sphere Swedish economist and key figure in the Moderate Party. Bilderberg/1988.
Jean de Lipkowski1French diplomat and Gaullist politician who attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.
Christian de La Malene1French hardline Gaullist politician.
Miguel Angel Martinez1Wrote a working paper for the discussion on The Soviet Union, The West And The Third World. A Case Study: Central America for the 1984 Bilderberg
Friedrich Merz1German transatlantic lobbyist and politician. Blackrock. Former chairman of the influential Atlantik-Brücke.
Roberta Metsola1Maltese MEP who was named a "reliable ally" of George Soros. She has been President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Gianni De Michelis1Attended the 1991 Bilderberg as Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vasco Graça Moura1Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician who attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting.
Ioannis Papantoniou1Minister of finance 1994-2001 who prepared for the Euro in Greece. In 2018, he and his wife were jailed, pending trial for grave corruption and money-laundering.
Schelto Patijn1Dutch politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Mario Pedini4Italian politician. Member of Propaganda Due. Several Bilderbergs in the 1960s.
João de Deus Pinheiro1Portuguese politician who attended Bilderberg/1990 as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Later European Commissioner.
Paulo Rangel1Portuguese politician who attended the 2010 Bilderberg as an MEP. Several times mooted as leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Viviane Reding2As EU Commissioner for Justice stated that the EU should create its own intelligence service
Andreas Schieder2Double Bilderberger Austrian politician
Margaritis Schinas1Greek politician who attended the 2022 Bilderberg as Vice-President of the European Commission
António José Seguro1Portuguese politician who attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting to be screened as a possible next prime minister.
Radosław Sikorski7Polish Bullingdon Bilderberger
Antoinette Spaak1Second generation Bilderberger, daughter of Paul-Henri Spaak, partner of Étienne Davignon.
Altiero Spinelli1Italian politician, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Barbara Spinelli2MEP, daughter of Bilderberger deep politician Altiero Spinelli; partner with Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Max van der Stoel1Dutch deep politician. Main coordinator of the Dutch-division of Operation Gladio from the 1980s.
Ilkka Suominen1Finnish politician who attended Bilderberg 1988 as Minister for Trade and Industry.
Rafał Trzaskowski1Liberal Polish politician who attended 2019 Bilderberg as Mayor of Warsaw, then selected 2020 and 2025 presidential candidate. ECFR
Walter Veltroni1Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.
Maxime Verhagen1Dutch politician
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So far 5 EU Presidents have visited Bilderberg at least once:

 Bilderberg meetingsDescription
Enrique Baron1Spanish politician, economist, and lawyer. Attended Bilderberg/1988 as president of the European Movement, and became President of the European Parliament in 1989.
Josep Borrell1Spanish Euro-politician in the forefront of a censorship drive. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2023
Pat Cox1Attended the 2001 Bilderberg as Leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group and an MEP
Piet Dankert1Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg. President of the European Parliament 1982-84
Roberta Metsola1Maltese MEP who was named a "reliable ally" of George Soros. She has been President of the European Parliament since January 2022.


Corruption

Eva Kaili, a Greek member of the European Parliament, has been charged in an alleged bribery scheme involving Qatar. She was one of four people arrested in connection with the probe and has been stripped of her role as one of the parliament's 14 vice presidents. Her lawyers have said she denies any involvement with the alleged scheme. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata joined Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers to discuss the investigation.

“A fourth Euro MP caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal has denied wrongdoing as the European Parliament investigates corruption allegations. Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba said he had been "deceived" by the Sunday Times undercover reporters and had not accepted their offer of cash.

But he said he did amend draft legislation at the request of the reporters posing as lobbyists. Two other MEPs have resigned in the affair and a third has left his party. Mr Zalba, of Spain's centre-right Popular Party (PP), said he was the victim of a "trap", in which the pretend lobbyists had requested two amendments to draft legislation on consumer protection.

He said he rejected the first amendment but agreed to put forward the second because he thought it would help protect small investors, Spain's El Pais news website reported. According to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, the undercover team made it clear to Mr Zalba that he would be paid for his services”
Laurence Peters,  BBC (2010)  [2]

Dozens of EU MPs have been caught in corrupt actions, according to a BBC report from 2010.[3] The European Parliament refused to cooperate with an EU institutional-wide study on integrity and ethics by Transparency International, one of the world's most prestigious anti-corruption NGOs, since 2014.[4]

Gladio

On November 22, 1990 the European Parliament debated Operation Gladio, producing a strongly worded resolution calling for an investigation. However, this was never followed through. Summarising the procedure, Daniele Ganser writes that "The dog barked loudly, but it did not bite. Of the eight actions requested by the EU parliament not one was carried out satisfactorily. Only Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland investigated their secret armies with a parliamentary commission, producing a lengthy and detailed public report."[5]


 

A Quote by European Parliament

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Black site“The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition”2006

 

Related Quotations

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Black site“The European Parliament denounces the lack of co-operation of many member states and of the Council of the European Union with the investigation; Regrets that European countries have been relinquishing control over their airspace and airports by turning a blind eye or admitting flights operated by the CIA which, on some occasions, were being used for illegal transportation of detainees; Calls for the closure of [the US military detention mission in] Guantanamo and for European countries immediately to seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by the US authorities; Considers that all European countries should initiate independent investigations into all stopovers by civilian aircraft [hired by] the CIA; Urges that a ban or system of inspections be introduced for all CIA-operated aircraft known to have been involved in extraordinary rendition”European Parliament2006
The Philippines“1995, Catholics for a Free Choice, 'Opus Dei: The Pope's Right Arm in Europe': "The Hanns-Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, is accredited with and receives funding from the European Union. The foundation is linked with the CSU (the Bavarian Christian Democrat) party of the late Fritz Pirkl, who was in the European Parliament and served on the boards of directors of Hanns-Seidel and the Rhine-Danube Foundation. Together with Limmat, Hanns-Seidel has funded Opus Dei’s extensive operations in the Philippines, including the Centre for Research and Communication. The centre’s "self-declared task is to form the future economic and political elite of the country," writes Opus Dei critic Peter Hertel. "Under President Corazon Aquino, Opus members have put a decisive stamp on the country’s Constitution."”Joël van der Reijden
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7 February 2018Beatrice Fihn"Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both."
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