Today a majority of the European Parliament called for the “full and urgent” implementation of the EU Ethics Body, after the Huawei scandal added “special urgency to starting the work without delay". Rightwing groups, including EPP, are still trying to block more transparency. Article in comments.

Seems that the Patriots for Europe are acting on the ideas that they floated during an event in the European Parliament last week, organised together with Hungarian and Orbán-linked think tank MCC Brussels

And Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Salvini denouncing the “declaration of war by Brussels” while the EU obviously had nothing to do with the decision