in the few short years of its existence the eu has become a corrupt block to any european success;

The European Union is refusing to say if Israel has paid for activities undertaken by a prominent official.

Katharina von Schnurbein, the EU’s coordinator for combating anti-Semitism, visited Israel in late May, for what was essentially a propaganda tour. During it, she dismissed the well-documented evidence that massacres were being carried out in Gaza as “rumors about Jews.”

Exactly who footed the bill for the trip – which involved discussions with Gideon Saar, Israel’s foreign minister – has not been disclosed. The EU’s executive, the European Commission, has invoked data protection rules to reject a freedom of information request I made seeking details about the trip’s costs and whether Israel covered them.

The European Commission’s secrecy over this matter exposes as laughable a recent claim by one of its spokespersons that it is among the world’s “most transparent public institutions.” As a basic minimum, a transparent body would be upfront about who pays for activities carried out by its employees.

In a lengthy reply to my request, the European Commission suggested that von Schnurbein needs to be shielded from scrutiny.

“The person, even though she is not a high-level official and does not form part of the senior management of the EU, has already been the subject of journalistic articles attacking not only her professional capacities, but also her personal character,” the reply stated. It did not cite any examples of such articles.

The reply amounts to willful deception.......more........