The digital platform to be launched on 19 April for EU citizens to participate in the Conference on the Future of Europe has been developed with the threat of disinformation in mind, the European Commission said on Tuesday (13 April).
In a debate with the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, Commissioner Dubravka Suica was questioned by several MEPs on how to prevent abuse of the citizens’ forum, assured that everything is being done to prevent misinformation, hate speech and other interference such as ‘trolls’ or ‘bots’.
The vice-president for democracy – who was elected by the Commission to co-chair the executive board of the conference, together with Ana Paula Zacarias, Portugal’s secretary of state for European affairs, representing the Council of the EU, and Guy Verhofstadt MEP for the parliament – stressed that there would be a team of moderators, native speakers of all EU official languages, who “will constantly monitor the content of t
Boris Johnson has admitted it is not clear whether the “boundaries” between Whitehall and business have been “properly understood” as Labour claimed the Greensill row marks the return of “Tory sleaze”.
The Prime Minister said an inquiry led by lawyer Nigel Boardman would examine the situation after it emerged the Government’s former procurement chief had worked for Greensill Capital while still employed as a civil servant.
Meanwhile senior Tory William Wragg said former prime minister David Cameron’s lobbying for the collapsed lender was “tasteless, slapdash and unbecoming” and indicated his cross-party Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee could investigate the row.
By Press Association 2021
David Cameron makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, before leaving for Buckingham Palace to resign as prime minister (PA)
A powerful Commons committee will investigate the collapse of Greensill Capital and the way Rishi Sunak’s Treasury responded to lobbying for the firm by David Cameron.
The announcement of an investigation by the cross-party Treasury Committee, which will officially launch next week, came after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer hit out at “Tory sleaze” over the controversy.
Another probe could be launched by the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee after its chairman, Tory MP William Wragg, described Mr Cameron’s lobbying for the collapsed lender as “tasteless, slapdash and unbecoming”.