Quarter of All MEPs Involved in ‘Scandals or Breaking the Law’

Top-level analysis from a consortium of 24 European news organisations, spearheaded by Le Monde, has found that a jaw-dropping one in four MEPs is implicated in judicial cases or scandals. The rot was always going to run deeper than Qatar-gate alone…

Out of 704 MEPs, a total of 163 MEPs were involved in the 253 identified and verified judicial cases – the vast majority of them concerned acts that took place during the current parliamentary term, which started in 2019.[…] Read the rest