No more corruption: let’s clean up EU politics!

A new corruption scandal rocked the EU Parliament in 2025, when several Members of the European Parliament were accused of accepting bribes from Chinese tech giant Huawei in exchange for promoting their interests. In the previous Parliament’s term, an agreement to establish the ethics body was made. A key step the EP needed to take to implement the ethics body was to change the Rules of Procedure to introduce the procedures of the body.

With our campaign “No more corruption: let’s clean up EU politics!”, we wanted to hold politicians accountable towards European citizens and to preserve the EP’s role as a space for democracy, participation and public interest. More than 58,000 signatures have been gathered since April 2025. We partnered with Transparency International EU and environmental and social justice activist Chloe Mikolajczak to reinforce our message, backing our members’ voices:

“What we need in the EU parliament is transparency. Who is talking to who needs to be registered and controlled. Jobs should become more transparent. So none lobbies for their own profit or benefits. You are responsible to protect our democracy. Our laws and our climate. You are the representatives. So please act like it and do what's right!” – Sarah

“Please stop corruption in our European Parliament or you risk losing the people's trust. You must enforce more strict anti corruption laws and transparency! The people voted for you in the hope that you would lead the world in good, honest politics with utmost transparency and humility! Please show us now that you can restore our faith in you all.” – Mike

In view of the EP Committee on Constitutional Affairs' (AFCO) vote on the Ethics Body Report, we launched an email to target action to MEPs from the EPP (European People’s Party) in the AFCO Committee. Nearly 800 WeMove members participated: 108 in Spanish, 3 in Hungarian, 143 in Italian, 519 in French, and 22 in Polish. Unfortunately, despite our pressure on EPP members, the Ethics Body report did not pass in the AFCO Committee.