Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet on Wednesday put the finishing touches to his first major legislation, a bill to clean up French politics, under the cloud of corruption investigations into several of his ministers.
Hours before François Bayrou, the justice minister, unveiled the anti-corruption bill, he was forced to deny allegations that he had misused European Parliament funds to pay his personal assistant.
Mr Bayrou, who is under investigation over the claims, told French radio that media reports that his centrist MoDem movement had created fake jobs for party workers as MEPs’ assistants were untrue.
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