European Parliament
Leinen (PSE ).
(DE)
Mr President, I am very grateful to you for what you have just said. Mrs Roth-Behrendt spoke on the substance of the allegations of misuse of funds by Members of this House, and then you made your own contribution. I just want to remind the House of how these accusations came to be made over the past three years; the Member to whom reference has been made used a concealed camera to spy on Members as they went about their work. In so doing, he violated all the rules of honesty, trust and collegiality.
I cannot see the European Parliament meekly accepting this sort of thing without a word of criticism. It is not individuals who suffer, but the House as a whole, when this sort of espionage is used to investigate the work we do. I would ask you to condemn this unequivocally in the interests of all Members of this House.
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