After the Qatargate scandal shocked the European Parliament, the foundation’s president, Roberta Metsola, decided that the best way to fight corruption is absolute transparency. He pushed for a new code of conduct that required, among other things, senior members of Parliament to declare conflicts of interest, including matters “concerning his or her family, emotional life or financial interests”. However, under these new rules, one key figure has been left out, and that is the president herself. If asked to make such a statement, she might consider informing the public that her husband, Ukko Metsola, was the top representative of EU interests for the Miami-based Royal Caribbean Group, the world’s second-largest cruise line company . As POLITICO reports, by contrast, Ukko’s work went largely unnoticed, even as he worked to influence green legislation that his wife would eventually sign. […]
Source: News Beast
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