One of the reasons the unelected EU leaders are so desperate to prevent Kiev from surrendering is that their own financial corruption is going to be exposed. Which process, apparently, has already begun:
Ursula von der Leyen is facing the starkest challenge to the EU’s accountability in a generation ― with a fraud probe ensnaring two of the biggest names in Brussels and threatening to explode into a full-scale crisis.
Exactly a year into her second term as Commission president, von der Leyen, already plagued by questions over her commitment to transparency and amid simmering tension with the bloc’s foreign policy wing, must now find a way to avoid being embroiled in a scandal that dates back to her first years in office.
An announcement by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office that the EU’s former foreign affairs chief and a senior diplomat currently working in von der Leyen’s Commission had been detained on Tuesday was seized on by her critics, with renewed calls that she face a fourth vote of no confidence.
“The credibility of our institutions is at stake,” said Manon Aubry, co-chair of The Left in the European Parliament.
If proven, the allegations would set in motion the biggest scandal to engulf Brussels since the mass resignation of the Jacques Santer Commission in 1999 over allegations of financial mismanagement.
Police detained former Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini, a center-left Italian politician who headed the EU’s foreign policy wing, the European External Action Service, from 2014-2019, and Stefano Sannino, an Italian civil servant who was the EEAS secretary-general from 2021 until he was replaced earlier this year.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office said it had “strong suspicions” that a 2021-2022 tendering process to set up a diplomatic academy attached to the College of Europe, where Mogherini is rector, hadn’t been fair and that the facts, if proven, “could constitute procurement fraud, corruption, conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy.”
The EU is nothing but a supranational criminal enterprise. Which shouldn’t exactly be a surprise, of course, when you’ve got a group of second-tier satanists in charge. If you give satanists the chance, they will always lie, cheat, and steal, because those are among their inverted virtues. It was never going to be successful; every transnational “union” falls apart and usually sooner rather than later. But the sheer shambolic nature of the EU makes it clear that the member-states never should have given them the ability to produce currency. These current arrests for fraud and corruption aren’t even scratching the surface yet.
As usual, the fraud itself is not the news. The news is that the fraud is now being permitted to be reported.
UPDATE: It’s worth noting that both of the arrested EU bureaucrats were involved in the 2014 coup that brought the current Kiev puppet regime to power.
Belgium police aided by the FBI raided the European Union Diplomatic Corp in a sweeping corruption probe arresting former European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and former Secretary-General of the European Union diplomatic service Stefano Sannino—both of whom were masterminds in overthrowing the legitimately elected Ukrainian government in 2014.