{"id":614708,"date":"2025-12-05T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614708\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:43:12","slug":"eu-is-drowning-in-corruption-claims-hungarian-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/614708\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;EU is drowning in corruption,&#8217; claims Hungarian premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed on Friday that the European Union is &#8220;drowning in corruption,&#8221; as an investigation into suspected fraud involving EU-funded training for junior diplomats continues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EU is drowning in corruption. Commissioners face serious charges, the Commission and the Parliament are engulfed in scandal, yet Brussels still claims the moral high ground,&#8221; Orban said in a post on US social media company X.<\/p>\n<p>His statement came after former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, a senior staff member of the College of Europe in Bruges, and a senior European Commission official were detained by the Belgian Federal Judicial Police on Tuesday at the request of the European Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (EPPO).<\/p>\n<p>The EPPO said the investigation was looking into whether confidential selection criteria for the EU Diplomatic Academy, a nine-month training program for junior diplomats awarded to the College of Europe in 2021-2022, were improperly shared before the tender was officially published.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corruption in Ukraine should be called out by the EU, but once again it&#8217;s the same old story: Brussels and Kyiv shielding each other instead of confronting the truth,&#8221; Orban also wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Ukraine&#8217;s anti-corruption agencies uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector that involved siphoning off at least $100 million, particularly involving state-owned nuclear energy provider Energoatom, which has led to high-profile resignations, including the energy minister and chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>A crackdown on corruption is critical if Ukraine hopes to advance its application to join the EU, which formally opened accession negotiations with Kyiv in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL\u00a0 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed on Friday that the European Union is &#8220;drowning in corruption,&#8221; as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5340,2575,2000,299,5187,1699,2190,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-614708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-hungary","15":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115669382324103255","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614708","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=614708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}