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MEP Maria Walsh says political group not tainted by arrest of leader

EU40 is a networking group for MEPs under 40 that was headed up by Eva Kaili who is now facing corruption charges

Maria Walsh: ‘I read the Politico article myself and if memory serves me right, they printed that there was no illegal activity taken by the group’. Picture EP

MEP Maria Walsh has said any suggestion of wrongdoing due to her membership of a political networking group that was headed by an MEP now facing corruption charges was “ludicrous”.

EU40 is a networking group for MEPs under 40 which allows lobbyists access to the legislators.

Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP, had been president of the group since 2019, until she was arrested by Belgian investigators last year in a corruption probe involving bags of ...