{"id":875321,"date":"2026-04-06T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:13:13","slug":"former-ministers-to-waive-parliamentary-immunity-amid-eu-subsidy-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875321\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ministers to waive parliamentary immunity amid EU subsidy investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/combo.001.jpeg?v=1775458022\" alt=\"Former ministers to waive parliamentary immunity amid EU subsidy investigation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/combo.001-960x600.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two conservative ministers who resigned after being named in a European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office (EPPO) investigation into the fraudulent distribution of European Union agricultural subsidies said they will waive their parliamentary immunity.<\/p>\n<p>In separate statements late Sunday, former rural development minister Kostas Tsiaras and former civil protection minister Giannis Kefalogiannis denied any involvement in wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The two ministers stepped down and were replaced in a cabinet reshuffle Friday after the EPPO dossier was formally transmitted to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In comments Monday, Tsiaras said he plans to run in the next general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two conservative ministers who resigned after being named in a European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office (EPPO) investigation into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,80341,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-875321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-opekepe","12":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116356527568605912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875321","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=875321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}