By: C. R.
The political group of the European People’s Party (EPP) will request a special session of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), at which, according to the group’s vice‑president Romana Tomc (SDS), European Commissioner Marta Kos would be questioned due to new facts related to her cooperation with the Yugoslav secret service, the UDBA.
“We want the Commissioner to explain why she lied to Members of the European Parliament during her hearing, when she was still a candidate for Commissioner,” Romana Tomc told Slovenian correspondents in Brussels.
According to her, a new book by Igor Omerza titled Komisarka includes documents that prove Marta Kos had an “active role” in the Yugoslav secret service, the UDBA.
The vice‑president of the largest political group in Parliament added that the EPP will submit the request to convene the session at the next meeting of coordinators, the representatives of all political groups in the committee, who will then have to support the convening of the session.
Tomc explained that the request has been coordinated with the EPP president Manfred Weber, the EPP’s chair of the AFET committee David McAllister, and the group’s coordinator in the committee Michael Gahler.
Kos had already faced accusations of cooperation with the UDBA before being appointed Commissioner for Enlargement, but during her AFET committee hearing in November 2024 she denied any involvement.
“I was never an associate or informant of the Yugoslav secret services,” she insisted in response to a question from one of the MEPs. She did acknowledge that her name appeared on a list of informants, as was the case for many government members, MEPs, and thousands of others, without knowing precisely what that meant.
A week ago, the European Commission responded to the publication of Omerza’s book by stressing that Commissioner Kos underwent extensive and detailed vetting before joining the Commission. Among other things, the Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) reviewed her declarations of interest and found no conflict of interest.