As the Huawei corruption investigation intensifies—led by Belgian police but shunned by Brussels’ European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)—the president of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsola has finally weighed in. She now claims to be “double checking” that no Huawei hardware is being used in the EP.
Although the EP has decided, as a precautionary measure, “to [temporarily—ed.] suspend the access to Parliament of representatives attached to the Huawei company with immediate effect,” the removal of parts of the parliamentary IT network is a more challenging prospect. Any ban on technology would supplement last week’s blacklisting of Huawei lobbyists following bribery allegations connected to the Chinese technology colossus.
