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Parliamentary question - E-001382/2019Parliamentary question
E-001382/2019
European Parliament

Médecins sans frontières paying its Australian communications director an annual salary of AUD 140 000

18.3.2019

Answer in writing

Question for written answer E-001382-19
to the Commission
Rule 130
Dominique Martin (ENF)

Médecins sans frontières (MSF) is an organisation working in the area of public health. What many people don’t know is that it declared to the Commission an annual budget of EUR 1.5 billion.[1]

It is beyond belief that MSF used Aquarius, its boat-taxi, to transport 77 642 illegal immigrants from Africa to Europe until the Italian Government of Mr Salvini intervened in December 2018.[2]

It is unacceptable that people working for the organisation used the services of prostitutes in the place where they were carrying out humanitarian work in Africa.[3] It is also disgraceful that MSF is paying its Australian communications director an annual salary of 140 000 dollars[4], excluding bonuses.[5]

Curiously, MSF declares having received EUR 5 million from the Commission and EUR 27 million from other public sources in 2016.[6]

How many of the 77 642 immigrants brought over by MSF are now unemployed in Europe?

Exactly how much money did the Commission send MSF in 2016, 2017 and 2018?

Will the Commission continue to fund the organisation in 2019, in light of these horrifying scandals?

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