2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission

Tabled by Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez, Nikola Bartůšek, Anders Vistisen

… financial interests of the Union as set out in Article 325 TFEU; Added: deplores the fact that, contrary to the stated values and very purpose of the founding of the Union, the European Commission is regularly the subject of scandals through its Commissioners or their close advisors: - alleged money laundering via lottery tickets by the Commissioner for Justice (potentially 1 million euros involved), the European Commission's inexplicable leniency towards its Director-General for Transport, who allegedly accepted free flights from Qatar airways, inexcusable decision by the Commission to pay a seven-year leave of absence with a total salary of 1.5 million euros for one of its directors accused of rape, without any attempt to recover the funds after the final conviction, case of pantouflage in a gas company of an adviser to the Vice-President of the Commission responsible for the environment and the Green Deal; - and through its operation: scandal of the administration of the Trust Fund for Africa denounced by the European Court of Auditors, scandal of the financing of NGOs by the European Commission with public funds to help it adopt a pseudo-climatic legislative package (Green Deal) via lobbying actions, financing of NGOs close to terrorist or Islamist movements;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE772.532