Two more MEPs declare financial interests online

Date: 18/10/01

By Martin Banks

THE financial interests of two more MEPs have been posted on the Internet following a campaign spearheaded by European Voice.

The declarations by Spanish deputy Pedro Marset Campos and Austrian Hans Kronberger have now been posted on the Parliament's website (www.europarl.eu.int). Both said they had not registered until now because of an "administrative error".

Independent Kronberger, an author, praised European Voice for its part in pressing all MEPs to register online. He said: "I am all for transparency and applaud your efforts because I believe this is in the public interest. I have nothing to hide and the fact that my name did not appear on the register until now is a genuine mistake which has now been put right."

A spokesman for Campos said that but for a "mistake" the left-winger's name would have already appeared on the register. Financial declarations by members were posted online for the first time in July. They are not, however, immediately visible: the document detailing interests has to be downloaded first.

• MEPs still refusing to register their interests online are: EPP-EDD GROUP: Michl Ebner (I), Werner Langen (D), Peter Michael Mombaur (D), Hartmut Nassauer (D), Doris Pack (D), Guido Podestà (I), Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl (D), Ursula Stenzel (A), Ioannis Averoff (GR), Marialiese Flemming (A), Brice Hortefeux (F), Christa Klass (D), Karsten Knolle (D), Christoph Werner Konrad (D), Kurt Lechner (D), Francesco Musotto (I), Hubert Pirker (A), Reinhard Rack (A), Paul Rübig (A) Agnes Schierhuber (A).

SOCIALISTS: Freddy Blak (DK), Elisa Maria Damião (P), Karin Junker (D), Christa Prets (A), Gilles Savary (F), Sérgio Sousa Pinto (P)

UNION FOR EUROPE OF THE NATIONS: Cristiana Muscardini (I), Jean-Charles Marchiani (F), Mariotto Segni (I), Francesco Turchi (I)

EUROPE OF DEMOCRACIES AND DIVERSITIES: Véronique Mathieu (F), Jean-Louis Bernié (F) INDEPENDENTS/NON-ATTACHED: Gian Paolo Gobbo (I), Carl Lang (F). List compiled on 16 October.

• A: Austria, D: Germany, DK: Denmark, F: France, GR: Greece, I: Italy, P: Portugal. List compiled on 16 October.

The financial interests of two more MEPs have been posted on the Internet following a campaign spearheaded by European Voice.