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MEP on blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station: Russia should be expelled from the UN
The United Nations is incapacitated because of Russia's presence as a member. The Russian Federation should be expelled from the UN, its membership in the organization is unacceptable. Tomas Zdechovsky, a member of the European Parliament, a member of the special committee on foreign interference, including disinformation, said this in a comment to Guildhall.
Illicit trade funding terrorism and wars
We report on how criminal and organised crime groups are using illicit trade to fund their activities and how the EU is trying to stop them. In 2019, the United Nations Security Council expressed concern that terrorists and organised crime organisations are benefitting from illicit trade as a source of financing through the trafficking of arms, persons, drugs, artefacts, and cultural property. Although terrorists have been financed by illicit trade for decades, the scale and extent of this dynamic is reaching levels never seen before.
Czech EPP vice-president hopeful calls for leadership renewal
The European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament has lost its visibility and its leadership needs to be renewed, Czech EU lawmaker Tomáš Zdechovský – who wants to run for vice-president of the Parliament’s largest group – told EURACTIV.cz ahead of next week’s EPP congress in Rotterdam.
Polish man pretends to be Czech politician, uses fake passport to hit on Japanese women
Tomáš Zdechovský, a member of the European parliament, has become a victim of an unusual scam. An unknown individual used his photo as well as his altered name to get intimate with Japanese women online
No need for Babiš to repay EU money over conflict of interest, Commission says
The European Commission said Monday it won't claim any money back from Andrej Babiš' business empire even though the Czech prime minister breached conflict of interest rules.
Stopping Fake Vaccines Offers via EU Cooperation
The Covid-19 crisis has caused Europe unimaginable losses on human lives, cut or even halted the income of millions and paralysed the economy. However, this worldwide crisis seems to be considered rather an opportunity by some. The bigger the despair of medical staff and governments to prevent people from dying and losing jobs, the more fraud, scams and counterfeit promising to ease this fight has appeared in the European Union. Luckily, the European Union has created two dedicated agencies whose task is to investigate and prevent fraud.
Mental health is everybody’s business
Increased mental ill health is an inevitable consequence of lockdown; however, dealing with this will require realistic resources. A European Day for mental health will help bring the required focus, write the co-chairs of the MEP Alliance for Mental Health.