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The French Sylvie Goulard, did not arrive this Wednesday, October 2 to convince MEPs. The nominee Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry and Defense will have to give written details to MEPs in Brussels. Back on this failed audition.
With our correspondent in Brussels, Joana Hostein
" You are a real star, " says a Czech MEP to the French candidate. " Two full-time jobs for one person, " she says ironically. A direct reference to the consulting work for an American think tank that Sylvie Goulard was doing when she was MEP and for which she was paid 10,000 euros per month.
" I'm clean and it was a legal activity ," says the appointed commissioner. Without convincing. Critics are also raging over the case of the allegedly fictitious jobs of MoDem MEP assistants.
" Minister of Defense in France, you have chosen to resign for a judicial inquiry into your mandate in the European Parliament and the judicial investigation is still ongoing. How to understand that what has removed you from the government in France does not prevent you from exercising with the serenity and independence required of the functions of commissioner, "said François Xavier Bellamy, head of the delegation Republicans.
Here again, the answers hardly convince. The parliamentarians asked the French for clarification.
" This procedure starts with written questions and if on these bases of written questions, the colleagues are not satisfied, there will be a second hearing, " says Andreas Schwab, coordinator of the Internal Market Committee.
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