“We don’t want an anti-Soros law,” leftist lawmakers said, arguing that it would have the same effect as the Hungarian transparency law criticized by Brussels.
The watchdog noted that 140 MEPs have also misused assistants’ funds, yet none of them faced such unprecedented punishment as the French presidential frontrunner.
More than two dozen Brussels-led dangerous liaisons with Huawei took place between 2020 and 2023—mainly related to AI legislation, digital services, and green policies.
The Qatargate scandal is just a symptom of a much wider problem—the building of influence by Qatar and the radicalisation of Muslim communities in Europe.
The Belgian man used to run a legal cannabis company along with the son of the judge investigating Qatargate, while his MEP mother lobbied for wider legalization in Brussels.
