This debate should take place during the next plenary session, on April 10 in Brussels. “If any MEPs or candidates in the upcoming European elections have taken money or been corrupted by the Russian government or its proxies, they must be exposed,” Hayer wrote in the letter.
Dutch Green MP Bas Eickhout also called for an investigation into the candidates in the European elections.
“The European elections will take place in ten weeks. We must be sure that none of the candidates in these elections are paid by the Russians,” he said in a statement.
Parliament’s two largest political groups, the European People’s Party and the Socialists and Democrats, have barely commented on the allegations. A spokesperson for Metsola, who hails from the EPP, said: “The president is aware of the allegations made and is looking into specific allegations. »
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