Equal remedy
In a separate lawsuit filed mid-July, the Patriots accused the Parliament of bias and lack of impartiality after it dominated the social gathering had misspent funds in a marketing campaign in Czechia.
The Parliament’s Bureau, composed of MEPs and tasked with taking choices on administrative points, dominated the Patriots ought to pay for that marketing campaign with their very own cash and provides again the EU funds spent on it, which got here to €228,000.
The determination violated “the ideas of equal remedy and non-discrimination, because it deemed related campaigns by different events to be reimbursable,” the Patriot’s case doc, seen by POLITICO, learn.
They additionally argue that the choice was not neutral, because the Bureau consists principally of center-right, liberal and left-wing lawmakers, with no far-right MEPs from the Patriots current to defend the case.
On prime of that, they contend the Parliament violated their rights to protection because it censored massive chunks of the letter the Patriots had despatched to the bureau to defend themselves.
In the primary model of the letter, the Patriots in contrast their marketing campaign with that of one other EU social gathering. In the letter that the administration circulated within the bureau, the justification was redacted.
