a parliamentary inquiry into lobbying rather than Emmanuel Macron?

Following revelations about the relationship between the American company Uber and Emmanuel Macron, then Minister of the Economy in 2016, many opposition deputies are calling for a parliamentary commission of inquiry. “We can have a commission on this subject, but I think that the real subject is lobbying. This is what we have to face, because it has been ten years since Anticor we say that there is a problem. There is a problem of supervision of lobbying in France. So if there must be a parliamentary inquiry, I think it is rather on this subject “considers Elise Van Beneden, president of Anticor, the association for the fight against corruption and for ethics.

“There is a very big problem with lobbying at the government level. A problem with the influence of private companies on our political decision-makers. And that, I think, needs to be made a broader subject to arrive at regulations that are wide and which prevents this kind of situation”, she continues. According to Elise Van Beneden, everything could have been anticipated: “If we had had obligations of transparency at the time of these meetings, we could have known from that moment that Emmanuel Macron had a privileged relationship. (…) There are many flaws. “What we need today is that the existing register of transparency be much more precise. I would go so far as to say that we should have all these reports that are given to politicians”.