- EU lawmakers clash over spyware inquiry visit to Greece Draft program shows Parliament seeks audience with Greek PM Mitsotakis over hacking scandal.
- The European Parliament launched a committee to investigate the use of Pegasus and similar spyware in Europe (PEGA).
- The group of lawmakers is planning to visit Greece in early November, where a scandal over the use of spyware against opposition figures and journalists has shaken up national politics.
- But Papadimoulis, a vice president of the European Parliament involved in the early decision-making on the program, angered the chair of the PEGA committee, Dutch center-right lawmaker Jeroen Lenaers.
- Now this has been leaked, we will reevaluate how to proceed with this mission," Lenaers said.
- Many of the officials the EU lawmakers would like to meet in Greece had previously been requested by the country's opposition parties to testify during a special national parliamentary inquiry.