Daniel Freund @daniel_freund@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Green Member of the European Parliament 🌻 fighting against corruption and for a European Federal Republic 🇪🇺
Joined Apr 2022
RT @pallokat: Schaut so aus, als würde sich das polnische Parlament nun doch ab morgen mit der Entschärfung des sog. "Lex Tusk" zumindest beschäftigen, die Präsident Duda wohl auf Druck der USA und der EU eingebracht hat:
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RT @EddyWax: Greens' @daniel_freund just pushed for a parliamentary resolution on the Commission's proposal for an EU ethics body, and won the vote, meaning it will be voted next month. "We don’t need further debates on harmonizing rules but enforcing the rules we have," he said.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668279627859599363
RT @stskarzynski: "Przed Ukrainą jest otwarta ścieżka do członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej" - dziś w #wyborcza moja rozmowa z @daniel_freund, eurodeputowanym @GreensEFA.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668256920963108864
"Die poln. Regierung tritt seit Jahren nicht nur polnisches, sondern eben auch EU-Recht mit Füßen (...) Die Kommission muss jetzt also hart ggü. Polen bleiben. Sie verfügt über das Machtmittel Geld. Und das entfaltet bekanntermaßen am besten seine Wirkung." - @phil_ipp_fritz
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668250811632177159
RT @phil_ipp_fritz: Ein europäischer Regierungschef, der Ungar Viktor Orbán, hat auf Twitter die Übergabe der Stiftungsgeschäfte von George Soros an dessen Sohn mit einem GIF aus „Der Pate“ kommentiert, also mit organisierter Kriminalität verglichen. Nicht Neues, dennoch immer wieder verstörend.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668249614456061954
RT @ProfPech: #Poland's #RuleofLaw breakdown: If correctly reported, this is quite the admission from @VeraJourova as it directly contradicts what Commission told MEPs last Jan and this would make VDL Commission complicit in violation i.a. of law-making Art 7(1) recommendation and milestone... https://t.co/QSOEQGR90o
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Ethics Body. One that can deal with individual cases like this one. Commission assurances that everything went by the book is not convincing. Independent assessment needed!
/end
https://www.politico.eu/article/gert-jan-koopman-top-eu-official-helps-run-a-luxury-hotel-in-bali-and-never-had-to-tell-brussels/
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▶️ lack of care within the institution
▶️ trust & self-control, instead of independent oversight
This kind of "we'll-probably-get-away-with-it-attitude" is not suitable for a democratically accountable institution. It's in the Commission's best interest to have a proper /2
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668200229399560193
Top Commission official owning a luxury hotel on Bali shows you everything that*s wrong with Ethics rules in the Commission
▶️assets not declared
▶️"owning" not considered an activity
▶️most flexible ways to interpret rules
▶️no independent assessment of conflict of interests /1
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Look at this tweet. And then tell me who's the mobster.
RT @PM_ViktorOrban: Soros 2.0
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/billionaire-george-soros-hands-control-empire-son-wsj-2023-06-11/ https://t.co/CYBMFrKjiy
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668167015557627905
EU is being slowed down by national vetoes. Time to replace them with qualified majority votes! Good initiative by EU foreign ministers - including German MoD @ABaerbock
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-foreign-policy-ukraine-russia-war-its-time-for-more-majority-decision-making/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1668160040065286146
RT @europeangreens: 🚨We see attacks on democracy in a number of EU member states.
🏛️ In our session at the @globalgreens congress, @daniel_freund, Salih Tuna, @natalieben, @MarianneVHansen & @ermorrissey discuss how to protect fundamental rights, fight disinformation, and tackle corruption! https://t.co/D6mtZqhxj5
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1667624147403390977
RT @GreensEFA: 6 months after #Qatargate: we had hoped the plan presented to address issues of ethics, corruption & sanctions in the EU Parliament would be farther along by now.
Our group will keep fighting for reform to ensure corruption is stamped out and #transparency is the default. https://t.co/9ioXFfvfpF
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1667213344409788416
RT @EURACTIV: MEPs slam EU ethics body plan as ‘toothless missed opportunity’ http://dlvr.it/SqMQV4
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1667139849906733057
Hungarian government acting "surprised" that they're in power for 13 years.
Spoiler: Autocrats don't lose election.
Autocrats must not take over Council Presidency!
RT @JuditVarga_EU: ✅ Preparation for #EU2024HU is on track! It's unique that the same government holds the presidency in 2011 & 2024 but no time to wonder, preparation is in full swing & we're happy to organise lectures for future council chairs in cooperation w/ the General Sec. of the Council. http…
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RT @EMInternational: "European funds will only be released if [Poland & Hungary] tackle corruption effectively."
- @daniel_freund https://t.co/4a5RuPHaik
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1666847463636860928
RT @Melanie_Vogel_: About the overdue EU ethics body that Greens have been asking for almost 10 years, right after the #Qatargate that made it even more obviously necessary:
Here’s where we are.
FYI: The yellow part means «always ruled out the possibility of an authority that would not be useless» https://t.co/dQUhK5E51P
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/daniel_freund/status/1666825093278756866
"Culture ultimately determines everything. A weak new body will be gobbled up by a weak ethical culture. Changing that culture is the challenge for those who lead these institutions, politically and administratively."
Must read by @EUombudsman:
https://www.ft.com/content/5efbaf18-e0ef-41bc-acd6-fcce83909683
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Green Member of the European Parliament 🌻 fighting against corruption and for a European Federal Republic 🇪🇺
Joined Apr 2022
