A Luxembourg MP who endorsed a Facebook comment calling for LGBTIQ people to be 'exterminated' faced no parliamentary sanction and only a written warning from his party, the ADR — testing how the Chamber of Deputies polices discriminatory speech.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has referred Luxembourgish MEP Fernand Kartheiser to the institution's ethics watchdog over his dealings with Russia, an unusual step that puts the Grand Duchy at the centre of an EU foreign-influence debate.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola has triggered a formal conduct inquiry into Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser over his attendance at a Russian economic forum and his dealings with the State Duma. One of the Grand Duchy's six MEPs, Kartheiser was already expelled from a parliamentary group last year over a Moscow trip and has dismissed the latest scrutiny as 'surreal.'