Tag: Qatargate
After “Qatargate”, are we heading towards a “Russiagate” in the European Parliament?
According to an investigation initially carried out by the Czech intelligence services, Moscow attempted to weave a network of influence even within the institution of the European Parliament. 2 mins…
Foreign interference: the recommendations of the European Parliament to avoid a new “Qatargate”
Cases caused a stir at the end of last year, when several MEPs – and one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament – were implicated in a corruption scandal…
Pier Antonio Panzeri, a former MEP at the heart of “Qatargate”
He is the man who is at the heart of “Qatargate”, the resounding corruption scandal that has shaken the European Parliament since December 2022. Former trade unionist, Italian leftist, invested…
Qatargate: why MEPs Cozzolino and Tarabella are at the heart of the investigations
The investigation for alleged corruption involving Qatar is widening. The European Parliament announced on Monday January 2 that it had launched an “emergency procedure” to lift, at the request of…
Qatargate: Michel Claise, the Belgian judge who strikes down financial offenders
After reading his attributes: a man who defies the powerful, a destroyer of financial crime, we would not have instinctively given him this jovial air. Yet Michel Claise has many…
Qatargate: confessions, role of Morocco… The last shocks of the corruption scandal in the European Parliament
The FIFA World Cup is over, but Qatar will still be in the news. This Tuesday, December 20, Belgian media and Italians report that the Greek MEP Eva Kaili, the…
“Qatargate” in the European Parliament: is Morocco also under suspicion?
Economic investments abroad, sports, or good diplomatic offices… Qatar spares no means or area to increase its influence in the world. The alleged largesse of the small state is now…
Qatargate: the European Parliament, a strainer in the face of corruption risks?
“Hello to the European Parliament!” Says Victor Orban, all perky. In the aftermath of “Qatargate”, a vast affair of corruption which shakes the institution up to its governing bodies, the…
Hungary, Qatargate… Rise and fall of the European Parliament
What a rollercoaster week for the European Parliament! The institution, which represents 450 million citizens, is shaken by the worst corruption scandal of its existence. Its now ex-vice-president, the elected…
“Isolating these bad apples”: after Qatargate, the European Parliament wants to limit the damage
“Our parliament is under attack, European democracy is under attack. Malicious actors, linked to autocratic third countries, have tried to instrumentalize NGOs, trade unions, aides and members of parliament to…