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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10354
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/corruption

Working group to draw up code of conduct

Brussels, 07/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament wants to make a clean break from its reputation of corruption and political scandals. Three MEPs, all of them former government ministers, were trapped last month by journalists working for The Sunday Times in the UK, pretending to be lobbyists. Slovenia's Zoran Thaler (S&D) and Austria's Ernst Strasser (EPP) have already stepped down over the issue, and the EP has entered proceedings to remove the parliamentary immunity of the...

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