MEPs Urge FIFA to Probe Infantino over Trump 'Peace Prize'
The lawmakers backed FairSquare’s complaint and said FIFA should examine whether Gianni Infantino breached rules on political neutrality and transparency.
- Fifty members of the European Parliament have urged FIFA's ethics committee to investigate President Gianni Infantino for awarding a 'peace prize' to President Donald Trump.
- Released Thursday, the letter argues FIFA's code of ethics requires Infantino to 'remain politically neutral,' echoing a complaint from British-based NGO FairSquare.
- Lead signatories include Barry Andrews, Lara Wolters, Dane Niels Fuglsang, and German Sebastian Everding, representing Social Democrats, Liberals, and Greens from 13 European countries.
- MEPs also criticized FIFA's sponsorship deal with Aramco, which they called 'the world's biggest corporate polluter,' and ties to Saudi Arabia, host of the 2034 World Cup.
- FairSquare termed this 'the most significant intervention by European policymakers' since the European Parliament called for Sepp Blatter to resign in 2015; only Norway has joined the criticism.
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Faced with the concert of sports emotions offered by the World 2026, we must listen: in deafness, coming from Europe, the protest persists against the politicization of the Fifa, embodied by the allegiance of Gianni Infantino to Donald Trump. ...
According to one of them, the award, which was invented in secret, also damages the credibility of the current World Cup.
The FIFA Peace Prize continues to generate controversy and has sparked a new reaction, this time a political one. In a letter addressed to FIFA, 50 members of the European Parliament urges the body that leads the world football to investigate the circumstances in which this distinction was granted to Donald Trump, reports News.ro.
The FIFA Peace Prize continues to generate controversy and has sparked a new reaction, this time a political one. In a letter addressed to FIFA, 50 members of the European Parliament urge the body that leads the world football to investigate the circumstances in which this distinction was granted to Donald Trump.
European MEPs urge FIFA to probe Infantino over Trump ‘peace prize’
LAUSANNE: Fifty members of the European Parliament have urged FIFA’s ethics committee to investigate their president Gianni Infantino for awarding a ‘peace prize’ to US President Donald Trump. The MEPs signed a letter, supporting a complaint by British-based sports human rights lobbying group FairSquare in December. The letter, dated June 29 and released on Thursday night by
Infantino awarded the US president with the FIFA Peace Prize, which did not even exist until then, during the World Cup draw in December.
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