communications between Farage and Trump
Dear European Parliament,
Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:
I request copies of all records concerning communications between all individuals employed by and/or affiliated with Member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage, including but not limited to MEP Farage himself, and all individuals employed by and/or affiliated with the Trump Organization, the 2016 U. S. presidential campaign of Donald Trump and/or U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team from Jan. 1, 2015 to the date that this request is processed. Please include any phone call recordings, call logs, call sheets, Skype video recordings, emails, letters, hand-written notes, day calendars, memorandums, meeting agenda sheets, text messages, voice and video recordings and other documented forms of communication between MEP Farage and/or with the Trump Organization, the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump and/or U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team.
Yours faithfully,
Niina Heikkinen
E&E News reporter
+1 202-737-3715 (w)
OUR REF: A(2016)15719
Dear Mrs Heikkinen,
Parliament acknowledges receipt of your request. You will receive a reply within 15 working days. Please note that Parliament's administration is closed from 23 December 2016 to 2 January 2017 (both included).
Best regards,
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate General for the Presidency
Directorate for Inter-Institutional Affairs
and Legislative Coordination
Public Register webpage
[email address]
Our ref.: A(2016)15719
Dear Ms Heikkinen,
In reply to your request, we would like to inform you that Parliament does not hold records concerning communications between Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Nigel Farage (or his staff) and the Trump organization you refer to.
Indeed contacts and meetings of individual Members (MEPs) with third parties, outside the institutional work, fall under the sole responsibility of the Members themselves and are not part of Parliament's official activities. Relevant documents, in this sense, are not held by Parliament but by the individual Members.
As regards MEPs work, the most comprehensive tool gathering the main parliamentary activities of each MEP, is the Member's individual page on Parliament's website: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/ma...
In the specific case at stake: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/45...
Parliament considers your request as handled and the file as closed. Please do not hesitate to come back to us, should you have any further request for identified documents. In this respect, we invite you to consult the public register of Parliament's documents: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegistreWe...
Best regards
TRANSPARENCY UNIT
European Parliament
Directorate-General for the Presidency
Accesdocs(at)ep.europa.eu