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Italian centre-right MEP Fulvio Martusciello: "Sorry, but I didn't find it in my mail" (Photo: ep.europa.eu)

Blacklist: Italian MEP defames own political family to save face

A senior Italian MEP made his own political family appear crooked to try to save face over fake election-monitoring.

Meanwhile, a far-left MEP has pleaded innocence over her trip to Ecuador.

Eight MEPs were recently blacklisted and three were formally reprimanded for "unofficial election observation" by the European Parliament's (EP) election-monitoring oversight unit, the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG).

The blacklist sees them banned from doing off...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Italian centre-right MEP Fulvio Martusciello: "Sorry, but I didn't find it in my mail" (Photo: ep.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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