{"id":122490,"date":"2025-05-22T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122490\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:18:12","slug":"mep-and-staffer-scuffle-over-gaza-in-european-parliament-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122490\/","title":{"rendered":"MEP and staffer scuffle over Gaza in European Parliament \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSeveral people in the Parliament saw it happening; it was related to Palestine-Israel tensions, because the MEP is very pro-Israel,\u201d said a Parliament official, who was granted anonymity to speak freely.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere in the Parliament on Wednesday was tense as lawmakers debated Israel\u2019s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip during a plenary session.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Parliament said the violent incident, which was caught on surveillance cameras, was \u201cbeing investigated as a matter of priority,\u201d and \u201cthe initial assessment confirms the MEP\u2019s version of events.\u201d <\/p>\n

The spokesperson added that the Parliament was providing assistance to Teodorescu, whose office said she had requested additional security.<\/p>\n

Earlier, V\u00e4nsterpartiet\u00a0chief of staff Marie Antman alleged to Swedish news agency TT<\/a> that the staffer had come into her office \u201cin a state of shock and showed marks that the person had received on his arm. Then it turned out that a Swedish parliamentarian had simply physically attacked my colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n

The secretary-general of Teodorescu\u2019s party, the Swedish Christian Democrats, said on social media that the MEP is currently \u201cin shock of the event, that such a thing can happen in a democratic institution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSeveral people in the Parliament saw it happening; it was related to Palestine-Israel tensions, because the MEP is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6178,2000,299,5187,2816,837,2452,11665,1814,5111,811,182,2322,812,41981,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-122490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-politics","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-meps","16":"tag-palestine","17":"tag-parliament","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-social-media","20":"tag-surveillance","21":"tag-sweden","22":"tag-swedish-politics","23":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114551449423859567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}