FactcheckEU. On the European website informationEuractiv.com publishes an article entitled "Website will verify the claims of pre-election campaigns for the European elections".
According to the report, the FactcheckEU initiative will check Community documents to see how true the claims of European politicians are in view of the European elections in May.
The publication cites as an example the false reference of the President of the European Parliament and a candidate for the Presidency of Europeanof the Martin Schulz Commission to the extent of Europe's losses from tax evasion.
In particular, the German politician said in an interview on Czech TV that "2 trillion are lost. euro" due to tax evasion across Europe. According to thepriceof the Commission, this amount amounts to 1 trillion. euro.
This was not the first time that politicians used the wrong data during the duration of their pre-election campaign for the European elections, the publication notes.
For this reason, the by clicking here FactcheckEU will systematically control such inaccuracies by inviting politicians to be properly informed before addressing European citizens.
Co-founder Pietro Kouratolo said to Euractiv that the "true" will bring together speeches and policy statements to make them accountable for what they say. "We want to be sure that, when politicians talk, they do not blur mere numbers," he said. A similar initiative was undertaken in Italy where "politicians often say nonsense. We wanted to see if what the politicians were saying was really. "
