Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Commission

Tabled by Virginie Joron, Julien Sanchez

Added: 237 a. Deplores the fact that the European Commission is regularly the subject of scandals: - Former Vice-President of the Commission for Foreign Affairs Mogherini resigned in 2025 on charges of corruption and suspicion of favouritism when awarding the tender of the EU Diplomatic Academy for the College of Europe, of which she later became director; - Former Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders is being investigated for money laundering using lottery tickets (potentially EUR 1 million); - The European Commission’s leniency towards its Director-General for Transport, who allegedly accepted free flights and shopping sessions from Qatar Airways in exchange for France’s secret contributions and was only dismissed in 2026; - The Commission’s decision to pay a seven-year leave with a total salary of EUR 1.5 million to one of its directors accused of rape, without any attempt to recover the funds after the final conviction; - The case of revolving doors in a gas company regarding an adviser to the Vice-President of the Commission responsible for the environment and the Green Deal; - Former European Commissioner and former French Finance Minister Thierry Breton (2019-2024) authorised to (re)integrate into Bank of America’s International Advisory Board, an activity that will occupy him 3 days a year and for which he has declared that he is not an employee, raising questions about his motivations and status; he takes over functions previously performed (2013-2019); - The scandal of the administration of the Trust Fund for Africa (EUR 5 billion), which led to double funding or disproportionate payments for projects, such as the purchase of blenders for schools without electricity; - The scandal of the European Commission funding NGOs to lobby and help it pass pseudo-climate legislation (Green Deal); - The waste by the European Commission of almost EUR 10 million for the so-called ‘European Koran’ project to rewrite European history and the funding of NGOs close to immigrationist, terrorist or Islamist movements; - The real estate fraud in the sale of EUR 1 billion of buildings belonging to the Commission revealed in 2026; - Notes that the EU disinfolab NGO sanctioned in 2022 by the Belgian Data Protection authority continues to receive European funds (>1,2 million euros in 2024) despite its administrative penalty for profiling activities and political listings on social networks against the GDPR regulation237a. Notes that 2 members of the Jourová cabinet met with this entity in 2024 to organise an event; - Notes that in the Pfizer case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 17 July 2024 that the Commission did not give the public sufficiently broad access to contracts for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines237b; - Notes that in the case concerning text messages exchanged with Pfizer, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on 14 May 2025 that the Commission von der Leyen did not provide a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents or why it considered that the text messages exchanged in the context of the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines did not contain substantial information237c; 237a https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/publications/decision-quant-au-fond-n-13-2022.pdf; https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/analysis.html ; https://transparency-register.europa.eu/search-register-or-update/organisation-detail_en?id=593474530364-05 ; https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070093 237b https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-07/cp240113en.pdf#:~:text=Press%20and%20Information%20Unit,Auken%20and%20Others%20v%20Commission 237c https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2025-05/cp250060fr.pdf

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.213