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At least we know why the Tories were so keen not to join the EU procurement programme for PPE.....from the Times
"Political ‘cronies’ given fast track to PPE contracts worth billions"
This is exactly the kind of thing that gets complacent governments defenestrated at General Elections, as the current one almost certainly will be.
Josep Borrell, a 'Champagne' member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (he has considerable personal assets), longtime lurker in the corridors and restaurants of Brussels, and current VP of the European Commission, was fined €30,000 for insider trading whilst he was Spain's Foreign Minister, which makes him, if I am not mistaken, a criminal. He thought it below himself to resign his position, and went on to apply for the post in Von de Leyen's Commission, which adds brass neck to his CV, and given that he was accepted, to that of Von der Leyen, herself no stranger to questions of dodgy financial conduct. There are also questions of conflict of interest due to his shareholdings in a number of global corporations, which include Bayer, and further fraud allegations over the alleged disappearance of a not so trifling €2.7bn of Spanish government public funds.
As an appointed member of the EU executive, the EU electorates cannot touch him. Unless he really gets too hot to handle, he will serve his extremely well-remunerated term, and leave the Commission with a nice, fat pension, which, if I'm correct, the UK taxpayer will continue to be obliged to contribute to.