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Amid the bloc’s ongoing bribery scandal, a small group of leftist MEPs in the EU have launched an anti-corruption hotline backed by a group linked to progressive billionaire George Soros.

A socialist MP working within the EU is suspected to have taken over $100,000 in bribes over the past two years, a report from the bloc’s parliament has claimed.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday held a commissioning ceremony for the first of four massive oil rigs operated by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described the ongoing bribery scandal plaguing the EU as being “infinitely painful”.

Anti-Brexit Member of the European Parliament and former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has labelled Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a “traitor” for suggesting the Ukraine war would end if weapons shipments were stopped.

Viktor Orbán called for the dissolution of the European Parliament after allegations that leftist parliamentarians took bribes from Qatar.

The Qatar corruption scanda involving Members of European Parliament is “damaging the credibility” of the EU, Charles Michel admitted

Brussels has reportedly summoned tech-billionaire Elon Musk to the European Parliament to discuss “hate speech” problems in relation to his social media network, Twitter.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says the massive corruption scandal in the European Union should be used as an opportunity to “drain the swamp” in Brussels.

No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), a pro-human rights and democracy organization, and Fight Impunity, which seeks to bring rights abusers to book, share the same address, on prime real estate in the governmental quarter of the Belgian capital.

As many as 60 members of the European Parliament may be in the crosshairs of investigators in the ongoing corruption scandal.

The New Democracy party suspended one of its European Parliament members, pending the outcome of an investigation.

Legacy parties and groups within the European Union are now “constantly playing down” the ongoing corruption scandal plaguing parliament, one MEP has claimed.

The partner of jailed European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili has reportedly confessed to charges of corruption, a Belgian newspaper has reported.

A suitcase described as being “full of cash” has been seized by police as part of an investigation into EU corruption, which has seen a number of socialist MEPs forced to step down from their positions

The Vice-President of the European Parliament has been formally charged with corruption and has reportedly been imprisoned.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has responded to news of high-level corruption arrests in the European Parliament, suggesting they prove Britain made the right choice by breaking with the bloc.

“Over many decades, the Parliament has allowed a culture of impunity to develop, with a combination of lax financial rules and controls and a complete lack of independent (or indeed any) ethics oversight,” Transparency International’s director Michiel van Hulten said.

A vice president of the European Parliament was arrested in connection to a corruption case involving the Islamist government of Qatar.

Seventy years after the founding of the forerunner to the European Union, the bloc has done “a lot of damage” to the continent, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) said during a “birthday” event.

Western leaders have “misplaced optimism” in their ability to defeat Russia in Ukraine and oust Vladimir Putin from power, a German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) told Breitbart London.

In a resolution adopted this week, the European Union has condemned structural and institutional racism along with denouncing the demographic theory of a “Great Replacement”.

Members of the European Parliament are concerned not doing enough is being done to investigate spyware surveiling politicians and journalists.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia’s foreign minister on Sunday sought to play down the importance of an agreement with Russia after the Balkan state that is seeking European Union membership faced criticism for signing it.

An MEP has slammed leftists in the European Union after the bloc’s parliament passed a report declaring that Hungary was “no longer a democracy”.

In what is the latest instance of EU bigwigs attacking the conservative-led state, the European Parliament has now declared that Hungary is “no longer a democracy”.

The European Parliament has vowed to investigate allegations that the Greek government was actively spying on an opposition party leader.

Hungary has told the European Union that it must adopt “Christian roots and culture”, as well as rework the union’s “dead end” European parliament

European Parliamentarian (EP) Ryszard Legutko has sharply criticized the EP’s “absurd” resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, insisting the EU “has no competence on such matters.”

The European Bishops’ Conference (COMECE) has blasted the European Parliament for its July 7 resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of abortion legislation to the states.

A German MEP has denounced a proposed EU scheme of “taxation without representation” that would leave Germany a “tax colony” of an “EU empire”.

Europhile MEPs have put forward a motion pushing for Abortion to be made a “fundamental right” in Europe in the wake of the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted not to block a proposed rule that would designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.” The rule will take effect unless 20 of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states band together to stop it.

An elected representative within the European parliament has accused the EU of trying to tax its population out of poverty.

The EU’s announcement on Wednesday that it will ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars bloc-wide by 2035 has been slammed by a populist MEP, who has argued it will cause “suffering” for “hundreds of thousands”.

The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the U.S. Supreme Court over a potential change abortion laws.