To stop the few wrongdoers among MEPs and Commissioners, our Ethics system needs the right to investigate on own initiative. Correct me if I’m wrong: EU institutions can pool their rights to documents and information as de facto right to investigate. @VeraJourova @swheaton /1 of…
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A legal study by @alemannoEU confirmed: via agreement among themselves, institutions can pool their right to ask for the info to be submitted in declarations of financial interest etc and give this to a body they create together. Read from page 54: https://www.greens-efa.eu/files/assets/docs/legal_study_eu_ethics_body_web_11012021.pdf /2 of 2
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