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...Days before a vote on anti-corruption recommendations following the “Qatargate” scandal, parliament president Roberta Metsola told the FT that the affair was instrumental in prompting reform....
...The EPP is the largest political group in the European parliament, with 175 of the chamber’s 705 members....
...Roberta Metsola said that rules on informal groupings and funding needed to be overhauled to ensure that the chamber was “not for sale”....
...The response would also include a “thorough review” of the declaration of financial interests by all of the chamber’s 705 members, Metsola said....
...European parliament president Roberta Metsola meets commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Strasbourg at the start of the chamber’s plenary session through Thursday....
...Ursula von der Leyen said allegations that Qatar was seeking to buy influence in the chamber was of the “utmost concern” and undermined the confidence of citizens in the EU....
...President Roberta Metsola proposed 14 reforms last week, which both transparency campaigners and MEPs say don’t go far enough....
...Parliament president Roberta Metsola, who vowed reforms to ensure the chamber is “not for sale to foreign actors”, is due to present the proposals to parliamentary group leaders tomorrow....
...Malta’s Roberta Metsola of the centre right European People’s Party has been elected as president of the European Parliament, becoming the youngest MEP to hold the post....
...In response to the scandal, Roberta Metsola, president of the European parliament, has pledged to tighten up the institution’s rules....
...Nieces Roberta and Silvana Armani work for the group, while Andrea Camerana, his nephew, is a board member....
...Roberta Metsola, the European parliament president, said the vote was a sign that the chamber, which has been sidelined in most of the recent energy legislation, should be more involved: “There is no need...
...After parliament president Roberta Metsola pledged a raft of anti-graft reforms designed to ensure that the chamber “is not for sale”, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the lifting of immunity...
...Roberta Metsola, president of the European parliament, said the chamber expects the commission to apply the rules “swiftly”....
...He remained in the chamber for well more than five hours of debate, responding to scores of MEPs and providing the chamber more attention than any EU leader in recent times....
...El gran budget: Spain’s chamber of deputies today is expected to approve the biggest budget in the country’s history, including €27bn in EU recovery funds....
...Metsola would be the first woman to lead the chamber in nearly 20 years and is likely to win the backing of liberals should she triumph in an EPP primary in November....
...In December, the Chamber of Deputies voted to make it illegal for citizens to publish corruption accusations online if the allegations could damage the target’s credibility, even if the allegations turn...
...Perhaps the finest version was released in 1971 by Roberta Flack, whose arrangement took the song back to its roots with a gospelly, three-four swing....
...Roberta Lombardi, 39, with a law degree and experience in a luxury interior design company, was chosen for the lower house. All deputies then briefly introduced themselves....
...The reaction of James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, to CKI’s purchase of Northumbrian Water may have surprised some observers....
...Robertas Servenikas conducts the Bavarian State Orchestra and performances run until May 24....
...Michael Forest makes a believable Sporting Life, and Roberta Alexander’s Maria brings her every track to life....
...The song has become a standard, although most versions fail to plumb its emotional depths (its songwriter Ewan MacColl famously described them as a “chamber of horrors”), confirming that the performance...
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