{"id":610829,"date":"2025-12-04T03:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610829\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:47:16","slug":"right-wing-populists-mock-eu-over-corruption-scandals-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/610829\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing populists mock EU over corruption scandals \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been demonstrated the last few years, time and time again, that Europe is dirty and needs to be cleaned up,\u201d said O\u2019Brien, as waiters in bowties served coffee to attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The latest embarrassment for the EU \u2014\u00a0the detention on Tuesday of former Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini and ex-top diplomatic official Stefano Sannino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-fraud-probe-federica-mogherini-stefano-sannino-european-external-action-service\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-fraud-probe-federica-mogherini-stefano-sannino-european-external-action-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as part of a fraud probe<\/a> \u2014 has given the right plenty of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>At a panel on Thursday, French National Rally MEP Thierry Mariani and British political commentator Matthew Goodwin are set to take aim at the \u201cdeep-state web of civil service, NGOs and captured institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alice Cordier, a French activist and president of the Nemesis Collective, a self-described feminist campaign group that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-pro-anti-israel-students-clash-at-french-elite-school-ahead-of-left-wing-candidates-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">branded a far-right Islamophobic outfit by critics<\/a>, said \u201ccorruption is a big issue.\u201d The scandals, she said, compound public anger that has so far been focused largely on the consequences of migration.<\/p>\n<p>Balasz Orb\u00e1n, however, was skeptical that the scandal would be a game-changer for national elections, including his own boss\u2019s tough re-election fight next year. \u201cHonestly,\u201d he said, the internal corruption allegation is \u201cnot a big surprise for me, so it doesn\u2019t add too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But according to Daniel Freund, an MEP from the German Greens, the far right is not \u201cin any position\u201d to credibly champion the anti-corruption cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s been demonstrated the last few years, time and time again, that Europe is dirty and needs to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2575,45787,31,2000,299,5187,26386,190810,349,40,140114,11665,6657,9899,6860,48,7338,190811,811,190812,190813,1220,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-610829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-daniel-freund","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-extremism","15":"tag-federica-mogherini","16":"tag-fraud","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-manon-aubry","19":"tag-meps","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-ngos","22":"tag-qatar","23":"tag-rights","24":"tag-rule-of-law","25":"tag-ryszard-legutko","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-stefano-sannino","28":"tag-thierry-mariani","29":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","30":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115659253240280198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610829","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=610829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}