Training given to the EU diplomatic service by the Muslim Brotherhood network
23.5.2025
Question for written answer E-002090/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Fabrice Leggeri (PfE), Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE), Anna Maria Cisint (PfE), Susanna Ceccardi (PfE), Nikola Bartůšek (PfE), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Marieke Ehlers (PfE), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE), András László (PfE), Viktória Ferenc (PfE), Tamás Deutsch (PfE), Kinga Gál (PfE), Enikő Győri (PfE), András Gyürk (PfE), György Hölvényi (PfE), Ernő Schaller-Baross (PfE), Pál Szekeres (PfE), Annamária Vicsek (PfE)
On 21 May 2025, the French Government published a report entitled ‘The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islamism in France’. It revealed 70 years of Muslim Brotherhood strategy, including hundreds of shell associations, faith-based schools and Qatari funding in France and Europe. France and the European Union are described as being undermined by these Islamists.
The report also states that ‘the European External Action Service (EEAS) has received training provided by supporters of the movement, such as Sondos ASEM, former advisor to Mohammed Morsi’, the latter being a former Egyptian president and member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
While it is well documented that these Islamists wield influence within the European Commission and Parliament, notably through Femyso and ENAR, this shows that Islamists are infiltrating other European institutions. This is all the more serious given that the EEAS is the EU’s diplomatic service.
Can the head of the EEAS, the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, therefore say:
- 1.What this training was and how much it cost?
- 2.Whether she will undertake to ensure that the EEAS no longer has any links with the Muslim Brotherhood and therefore relying on its support for training courses?
Submitted: 23.5.2025