The European Parliament is one of the most important bodies of the European Union, which has legislative and budgetary powers. Therefore, today we will talk about MEPs who promote Russian narratives in Europe.
Get acquainted – an Irish politician and a MEP Clare Daly. She strongly aligns herself with another Irish MEP, Mick Wallace. Like Wallace, Daly spends most of her energy appeasing Russia and China and criticizing the US.
Steps of propaganda
She was elected to the Irish Parliament in 2011 in the general election. In 2012, she was accused of embezzling funds for a business trip. In the same year, she refused to call for the resignation of her political ally Mick Wallace. She was elected to the Irish Parliament in 2011 in the general election. In 2012, she was accused of embezzling funds for a business trip.
In Jun, 2013, after the G8 summit, she accused the Irish government of “prostituting” the country to US and Obama. In 2019, Daly was elected as a MEP for the European Parliament. Soon after Daly was accused of nepotism for hiring her former husband as her assistant, forbidden by the rules of the European Parliament.
In Apr, 2021, Daly and Wallace visited the HQ of Iran-backed militia group Popular Mobilization Forces.
Daly and the Russian-Ukrainian war
Daly and Wallace also attempted to remove parts from the EP’s report on MH17. She’s attended protests supporting Algirdas Paleckis, a politician who was spying for Russia in Lithuania.
In Jan, 2022, Clare said that the Russian troops on the Ukrainian border were “clearly defensive”. She also said that there is “no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine”.
She has voted against pretty much every pro-Ukraine vote in the European Parliament,including the declaration of Russia as a terrorist state. Her speeches are filled with whataboutism and accusations of “US imperalism”.
Ukraine’s security agency has placed Clare Daly on a list of public figures who promote Russian propaganda. Ms. Daly appears alongside several dozen figures, including French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, former US Democratic presidential nominee Tulsi Gabbard and firebrand journalist Glenn Greenwald.
The list, titled “speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda”, was published by the Centre for Countering Disinformation, a unit of the national security and defence council of Ukraine which is headed by president Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
