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Renzo Bossi, son of Umberto, the Northern League’s founder and former leader, has resigned from Lombardy's regional council after a video confirmed that he had embezzled party money. The scandal already forced his father’s resignation last week. Militants and cadres are now asking other members of the party leadership to resign.
Score settling in the League – La Stampa
Two of Britain's largest lobbying firms have launched bids to help businesses exploit the European Citizens' Initiative – a new programme that was meant to involve ordinary people in EU law-making. They are offering to help clients set up petitions demanding changes to EU law under the new programme.
Revealed: lobbyists’ plans to hijack “people's petitions” – The Independent
Two years after the Smolensk air disaster in which 96 people, including President Lech Kaczyński were killed, Polish opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczyński has again expressed his “feeling that Lech was murdered.” The late president's twin brother also announced his candidacy for the 2015 presidential election.
Kaczyński’s charge – Polska The Times
A former intelligence chief claims that former PM Leszek Miller, ex-president Aleksander Kwaśniewski, the Kaczyński brothers, as well as current President and PM Bronislaw Komorowski and Donald Tusk, were all aware of the presence in Poland of secret US prisons from 2002-2003.
CIA prisons - everyone knew – Wprost
Petr Kellner, one of the Czech Republic's wealthiest men, and confidant of President Václav Klaus, has claimed that corruption in business and political circles is worse than in Russia.
Petr Kellner: corruption at home now worse than in Russia – Mladá Fronta DNES
According to a survey, 91% of Austrians believe that the parliamentary inquiry into corruption has reinforced the negative image of political parties. But most respondents were unaware of what subjects the commission is scrutinising (privatisation, undeclared donations and gifts etc..).
Majority think inquiry will have no effect on corruption – Der Standard
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