European Parliament

European Parliament   (IGO)
Parent organization	European Union
Leader	President of the European Parliament
Type	•  legal •  international
Subpage	•European 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.

Bilderberg

So far 50 EU MPs have visited Bilderberg at least once:

	Bilderberg meetings	Description
Enzo Bettiza	1	Anti-communist Moscow correspondent and editor who attended the 1974 Bilderberg Meeting. Later Europhile politician.
Barend Biesheuvel	1	1968 Bilderberg. Dutch PM 1971-73
Pieter Blaisse	6	Dutch politician who attended 6 Bilderberg meetings. He was mainly active in the field of foreign trade and Europa integration.
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst	3	Dutch politician & lawyer who attended the 1970 and 1974 Bilderbergs
Christophe Béchu	1	Single Bilderberg French politician who by 2022 had become Minister for Ecological Transition
Luigi Caligaris	1	Single Bilderberger Italian officer, later politician
Antonio Cariglia	1	Italian politician acquitted after a 12 years court case in relation to Mani pulite.
Maria Carrilho	1	Portuguese pro-EU and pro-NATO politician and academic. Attended Bilderberg/1995.
Frederick Catherwood	1	UK business executive and MP who attended the 1971 Bilderberg
Efthimios Christodoulou	1	Greek Bilderberg businessman and central banker who attended Bilderberg/1990.
Jean Pierre Cot	1	Swiss 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 Couto	1	Portuguese politician and trade union leader.
Simon Coveney	2	Single Bilderberger Irish politician
Pat Cox	1	Attended the 2001 Bilderberg as Leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group and an MEP
João Cardona G. Cravinho	1	Portuguese government minister who attended the 1999 Bilderberg
Elisa Ferreira	1	Appointed 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 Goulard	1	French politician who attended the 2016 Bilderberg. Deputy Governor of the Bank of France since 2018
Bernard Guetta	1	French 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 Heinäluoma	1	Transatlantic Finnish politician. Groomed as successor Prime Minister, but failed in elections.
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	1	Dutch 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.
Kaja Kallas	1	Estonian politician
Enrico Letta	1	Single Bilderberg. Prime Minister of Italy
Staffan Burenstam Linder	1	Wallenberg Sphere Swedish economist and key figure in the Moderate Party. Bilderberg/1988.
Jean de Lipkowski	1	French diplomat and Gaullist politician who attended the 1964 Bilderberg meeting.
Christian de La Malene	1	French hardline Gaullist politician.
Miguel Angel Martinez	1	Wrote 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 Merz	1	German transatlantic lobbyist and politician. Blackrock. Former chairman of the influential Atlantik-Brücke.
Roberta Metsola	1	Maltese MEP who was named a "reliable ally" of George Soros. She has been President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Gianni De Michelis	1	Attended the 1991 Bilderberg as Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vasco Graça Moura	1	Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician who attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting.
Ioannis Papantoniou	1	Minister 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 Patijn	1	Dutch politician who attended the 1972 Bilderberg
Mario Pedini	4	Italian politician. Member of Propaganda Due. Several Bilderbergs in the 1960s.
João de Deus Pinheiro	1	Portuguese politician who attended Bilderberg/1990 as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Later European Commissioner.
Paulo Rangel	1	Portuguese politician who attended the 2010 Bilderberg as an MEP. Several times mooted as leader of the Social Democratic Party.
Viviane Reding	2	As EU Commissioner for Justice stated that the EU should create its own intelligence service
Andreas Schieder	2	Double Bilderberger Austrian politician
Margaritis Schinas	1	Greek politician who attended the 2022 Bilderberg as Vice-President of the European Commission
António José Seguro	1	Portuguese politician who attended the 2013 Bilderberg meeting to be screened as a possible next prime minister.
Radosław Sikorski	7	Polish Bullingdon Bilderberger
Antoinette Spaak	1	Second generation Bilderberger, daughter of Paul-Henri Spaak, partner of Étienne Davignon.
Altiero Spinelli	1	Italian politician, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Barbara Spinelli	2	MEP, Second generation Bilderberger
Max van der Stoel	1	Dutch deep politician. Main coordinator of the Dutch-division of Operation Gladio from the 1980s.
Ilkka Suominen	1	Finnish politician who attended Bilderberg 1988 as Minister for Trade and Industry.
Walter Veltroni	1	Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.
Maxime Verhagen	1	Dutch politician
Mia de Vits	1	Belgian politician. Attended 1998 Bilderberg meeting as Secretary-General of the General Labour Federation of Belgium.
Lars Wohlin	4	Governor of the central bank Sveriges Riksbank 1979-82. Attended all Bilderberg meetings those four years.
Helene Carrere d'Encausse	1	Wrote a working paper for the discussion on How Should The West Deal With The Soviet Bloc for the 1985 Bilderberg.

So far 5 EU Presidents have visited Bilderberg at least once:

	Bilderberg meetings	Description
Enrique Baron	1	Spanish politician, economist, and lawyer. Attended Bilderberg/1988 as president of the European Movement, and became President of the European Parliament in 1989.
Josep Borrell	1	Spanish Euro-politician in the forefront of a censorship drive. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2023
Pat Cox	1	Attended the 2001 Bilderberg as Leader of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group and an MEP
Piet Dankert	1	Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg. President of the European Parliament 1982-84
Roberta Metsola	1	Maltese 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) 

Dozens of EU MPs have been caught in corrupt actions, according to a BBC report from 2010. 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.

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."

 

A Quote by European Parliament

Page	Quote	Date
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

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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 Parliament	2006
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 ISGP	20 JL

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Krah, Europe and a German point of view	Blog post	26 May 2024	Götz Kubitschek

 

A document sourced from European Parliament

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN	Speech	Donald Trump Nuclear weapon International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Nuclear Posture Review EU Non-Proliferation Consortium	7 February 2018	Beatrice 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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