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"en.20161213.15.2-222-920"2
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"I supported the outcome reached today after a year and a half’s worth of hard work, but critical progress remains blocked by the usual conservative suspects. Candidates to the posts of EU Commissioners will in the future be much more tightly scrutinised for conflicts of interest, made all the more necessary by recent revolving door scandals.
As far as our own House is concerned, we have enhanced the disclosure and updating requirements of MEPs’ parallel sources of income, banned Members from the outrageous practice of engaging in lobbying activities aimed at their own colleagues, and explicitly asked that MEPs refuse to meet unregistered lobbyists.
I and other colleagues, and the staff in our offices, have personally abided by such practices for a long time, and have gone even beyond them in terms of the information we publish. I personally think that most second jobs are outright incompatible with the responsibilities of a parliamentarian and would like to see the legislation laying out our statute revisited to that end.
Unfortunately, many colleagues held us hostage to what is literally business as usual to some of them, on pain of blocking any progress at all, but we must keep up the pressure."@en1
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