The RN and its allies threatened by a brand new case of economic diversion within the European Parliament | EUROtoday

The case of fictitious parliamentary assistants of the National Rally (RN) is barely judged that the far -right social gathering and its allies are on the coronary heart of a brand new scandal of diversion of public cash on the expense of the European Parliament, based on an investigation by Worldin collaboration with the German investigation program “Kontraste”, the German journal Die Zeit and the Austrian weekly Falter.

The Identity and Democracy Parliamentary Group (ID), which introduced collectively a dozen far-right events over the last mandate (2019-2024), is accused of irregular spending on the expense of the Strasbourg Parliament’s funds for a complete quantity of no less than 4.33 million euros-comparable to the monetary injury brought on by the Fictive jobs of parliamentary assistants (4.5 million euros). A big a part of this sum benefited former radical activists near Marine Le Pen, beneficiaries of juicy contracts spent with out actual requires tenders, and associations typically near elected officers or the causes of the intense proper.

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