The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed Marine Le Pen's appeal against the General Court's judgment requiring reimbursement of 300 000 euros for a fictitious assistant’s position, considering this appeal in part manifestly inadmissible and unfounded, in an Order delivered on Tuesday 21 May (Case C-525/18 P) (see EUROPE 12044/25).
According to the Court, the General Court was right to declare inadmissible certain documents supplementing the file. By not interviewing the interested party personally, it did not violate the rights of the defence either.
Mrs Le Pen also points out that the then President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, had a parliamentary assistant who did not reside at his place of employment and was responsible for managing a travel agency belonging to the German political party SPD.
Assuming that the applicant's allegation is based on real facts, this circumstance would have no influence on the legality of the contested decision, the General Court had nevertheless rightly held, according to the European judges.
See the Order: http://bit.ly/2M4EzPH. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)