{
  "id": 6412811,
  "title": "Former PM Bayrou returns to court in long-running EU assistants case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/former-pm-bayrou-returns-to-court-in-long-running-eu-assistants-case",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-09T11:09:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RFI English",
    "slug": "rfi-english",
    "url": "https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260909-former-pm-bayrou-returns-to-court-in-long-running-eu-assistants-case"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former French prime minister François Bayrou returns to court in Paris on Wednesday as an appeal opens into allegations that European Parliament funds were misused to pay staff working for his centrist MoDem party.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}