transparent to the citizens and when things like this happen behind the scenes it is a assault on democracy. kim scheppele. assault on democracy. kim scheppele assault on democracy. kim scheppele. very good to get our scheppele. very good to get your insights. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: following the arrest of a group of alleged coup plotters in germany, the country s parliament considers tightening its gun laws. cheering and singing saddam hussein is finished, because he killed our people, our women, our children. the signatures took only a few minutes but they brought a formal end to 3.5 years of conflict conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. before an audience of world leaders, the presidents of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement.
assistants and members of the european parliament in an effort to subdue our processes. to discuss this we can speak to kim scheppele, who s an expert on the european union and professor at the princeton school of public and international affairs. thank you for being with us, what do you make of this? this came as quite what do you make of this? this came as quite a what do you make of this? this came as quite a shock- what do you make of this? ti 3 came as quite a shock to everyone because a scandal like this hasn t happened and anyone s living memory in the european parliament, also it has a lot of goals that are supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening, so when the story broke the first reaction from brussels was shot in the second reaction was you heard from president roberta metsola a strong response this was something the european parliament wouldn t tolerate. you mentioned structures in place within the european system, the european commissioner when she came in
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