EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commissioner hopefuls will not win the approval of centre-right MEPs if they are considered to have collaborated with repressive Communist regimes or with governments 'tainted by corruption,' the largest group in the European Parliament has indicated. "The candidate commissioners must under no circumstances have been associated with oppressive regimes and must not have participated in non-democratic governments or political movements, or governments or movements that have been tainted by corruption," a checklist drafted by the European People's Party (EPP) reads. The EPP will only give a green light to commissioners who have not collaborated with oppressive regimes The EPP holds the largest number of seats in the EU legislature, 288 out of 736. It is important to know what the positions of commissioner candidates were in the past, when dissidents were put in prison or killed, the conservative deputies believe. "We don't want to reward perpetrators of the Communist regimes," German MEP Manfred Weber said on Wednesday (18 November) at a press briefing.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU commissioner hopefuls will not win the approval of centre-right MEPs if they are considered to have collaborated with repressive Communist regimes or with governments 'tainted by corruption,' the largest group in the European Parliament has indicated.
"The candidate commissioners must under no circumstances have been associated with oppressive regimes and must not have participated in non-democratic governments or political movements, or governments or movements that have been tainted by corruption," a checklist drafted by the European People's Party (EPP) reads.
The EPP will only give a green light to commissioners who have not collaborated with oppressive regimes
The EPP holds the largest number of seats in the EU legislature, 288 out of 736.
It is important to know what the positions of commissioner candidates were in the past, when dissidents were put in prison or killed, the conservative deputies believe. "We don't want to reward perpetrators of the Communist regimes," German MEP Manfred Weber said on Wednesday (18 November) at a press briefing.
Well, that pretty much rules out the whole of EPP. Certainly the Italians, French and British on the grounds of corruption. By the way this includes Labour. Then, non-democratic governments would apply to quite a few more I guess (certainly the three aforementioned would qualify). And non-democratic political movements, well, that's the current right in a nutshell.
Nice to know the Commission will only have liberals! Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
