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Fidesz: EU institutions are swamped in corruption
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Next year’s European parliamentary elections will give an opportunity for “comprehensive changes” in handling corruption in Brussels, an MEP of ruling Fidesz said on Wednesday.
Speaking on the sidelines of an EP plenary session, Balázs Hidvéghi told Hungarian reporters that Hungary supported all EU measures to fight corruption. “It seems absurd, however, that the European Commission should propose new anti-graft measures, partly against third countries, and dangle the possibility of sanctions even as it has failed so far to disclose the most severe internal corruption scandal of its history,” he said.
Besides the corruption scandal in the European Parliament, which was made public in December, “unacceptable practices were also detected” in the European Commission, Hidvéghi said. At the same time, the discoveries have brought no internal investigation or accountability, he added.
“We can’t expect the politicians who participated in and operated this network to own up to their deeds,” he said. But institutional efforts in the EU are also directed at downplaying smoothing over corruption in the EU, and to represent them as individual mistakes, he said.
While anti-corruption measures are important, the EP should first clear up, adhere to and enforce its own internal regulations, he said. Further anti-graft legislation and the sanctioning of third countries should only come after, he said.
Fidesz MEP: ‘EU institutions rife with corruption’
The institutions of the European Union and the “everyday operations of Brussels bureaucracy are … entangled in a web of corruption”, Tamás Deutsch, the leader of ruling Fidesz‘s European parliamentary delegation, said on Wednesday.
We do have legislation in place: In October of 2022 and under pressure from the EU, Parliament passed the law on establishing the autonomous Integrity Authority to investigate fraud, conflict of interest, corruption and other crimes in connection with the use of European Union funds in Hungary. It also has the power to independently launch probes.
The anti-corruption working group of the newly established Integrity Authority apparently adopted its first report on 2022 which it submitted to the government in March of this year.
So – question to anyone, including our Politicians – have you heard anything regarding this 2022 report? Seen a copy? Press release? @DNH – you are journalists – any intel?
Mr. Deutsch is no doubt anxious to wave the report in the faces of those Brussels Elites!
Where’s the lie? The E.U. has failed every single financial audit in the past 21 years. Then there’s that chick who got caught with suitcases stuffed with cash. And that’s just what we know about. The venality, self-indulgence, profligacy, nepotism, kickbacks, and plain old wastefulness are rampant in Brussels.