Letter from Strasbourg
Sarah Collins: Long goodbyes, avian high jinks and spy scandals as the European Parliament breaks up
As some MEPs faced the final curtain, others girded themselves for June’s elections
As European parliamentarians swarmed into the medieval French city of Strasbourg for their final sitting before the June elections, German prosecutors were arresting an assistant to the Alternative für Deutschland MEP Maximilian Krah on suspicion of spying for Chinese secret services.
China is just one of a list of foreign powers suspected of infiltrating the EU’s only directly elected institution, following the Qatar-gate cash-for-influence scandal last year and last month’s revelations by Belgian and Czech ...
