QATARGATE ROCKS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S REPUTATION FOR CLEAN POLITICS
March 11th, 2023
The European Parliament’s (EP) reputation as a mostly harmless and clean international democratic assembly has taken a serious knock through the ‘Qatargate’ scandal. Keith Nuthall reports.
Belgium’s federal police, working with Belgian prosecutor Michel Claise, have uncovered what they claim is a serious network of graft, where the natural gas-rich Gulf state of Qatar is alleged to have subverted elected European Union (EU) officials.
The conspiracy unravelled after police arrested the father of Greek MEP Eva Kaili - Alexandros – at a Brussels ...
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