Ur dagens Financial Times...
The new leader of the European parliament's biggest political group is under investigation for misuse of public funds in France.
Joseph Daul, who was elected on Tuesday by the centre-right European People's party, is part of an inquiry into the diversion of €16m (£10.6m) of agricultural money in the 1990s that has also ensnared three former agriculture ministers. The eurosceptic UK Independence party unearthed the allegations yesterday.
Mr Daul was head of the National Breeding Confederation, the beef producers' union, between 1993 and 1998. He was placed under investigation in 2004 for allegedly diverting money to finance the farmers' union, the FNSEA, and to pay his own staff. He is not accused of benefiting personally but of "complicity and concealment of the abuse of public funds".
A spokesman for Mr Daul said: "His honesty and propriety have not been called into question and he is fully co-operating with the inquiry."
Strålande, Sickan!
EPP-ED har valt en jordbrulksstödskramande, protektionistisk bonde som inte talar engelska till gruppledare. Och nu exponeras han alltså även som myglare med jordbruksstöd.
Freakshow!
Det är nog dags att välja om – och att välja bättre!
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Även Le Figaro och The Telegraph skriver om detta i dag. (Ännu ej på nätet.)
SvaraRaderaDrevet går!
Drevet går!
SvaraRaderaTja, man kan ju alltid hoppas, men med tanke på att herr Trichet fick sin tjänst som ECB chef och monsieur Chirac har kunnat få sitta två perioder som president så undrar jag om det verkligen kommer att få några konsekvenser för Joseph Daul.