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EPP HQ Raided Over Digital Bribery Allegations
The raid relates to a corruption case against top EPP official Mario Voigt, with allegations that the CDU politician awarded a contract to design an EPP campaign app on the basis of bribery.
The raid relates to a corruption case against top EPP official Mario Voigt, with allegations that the CDU politician awarded a contract to design an EPP campaign app on the basis of bribery.
Centrist parties need a coalition pact, the Renew leader said, that would guarantee them top EU positions and prevent any right-wing alliance.
Hololei resigned from his top position in the transport department and will move to a new role within the Commission despite accusations of unethical behaviour.
MEPs-turned-lobbyists will have a harder time getting back to business under the new rules aimed to curb corruption in Brussels in the fallout of Qatargate.
The EU cannot guarantee that hundreds of billions of euros from its joint pandemic recovery fund were not wasted or lost on corruption, says the European Court of Auditors.
Instead of a third party, Hololei himself was the only official to sign off on accepting junkets to Qatar—while he negotiated a controversial aviation deal with the Qatari government.
Freedom of information requests reveal that senior EU transport official Henrik Hololei enjoyed trips to Qatar while he and his office were negotiating a controversial open skies agreement with the Gulf state.
The prosecutor’s office confirmed that the seizures had nothing to do with the separate Qatargate scandal.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini brandished the plans as economic suicide and insinuated that EU legislators had been influenced by Chinese lobbyists.
Calls for transparency in the EU institutions are only growing louder in the wake of Qatargate. As such, this new decision for private questioning will damage the credibility of the EU Parliament.
The issue has, in some ways, become a flashpoint between Meloni’s government and the opposition.
As vice president of the delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula, Tarabella took a favorable view of Qatar, in spite of its poor human and workers’ rights record.
An internal audit revealed that on several occasions information was broadcast without having been checked by the channel’s usual control circuits.
The spokesman for the Moroccan House of Representatives Rachid Talbi Alami said in a statement that the Moroccan Parliament had decided to “reconsider” its relationship with the European Parliament.
The EU, in the hands of its current pilots, has become an ideological trap—political blackmail clumsily disguised in technocratic euphemisms.
The European Parliament is not convinced by the Commission’s reasoning and wants further scrutiny of the agreement.
The new hotline was created with the support of the Corporate Europe Observatory, which received just under €800,000 in funding from the Soros Open Society Foundation since 2014.
In the shadow of Caspito’s hunger strike, Italy’s government is bracing against a wave of left-wing violence. Meanwhile, some observers are drawing connections between political fields and organised crime.
The spin operation was uncovered when it was revealed that an intermediary PR firm being paid by the Azeri government had coaxed an Australian academic to sign his name to a misleading piece about the blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
With talk circulating about a right-wing political coalition, the pros and cons of such an alliance are more complex.
The Maltese politician took over the presidency of parliament in January 2022, but the gifts only came to light when she declared them in mid-January a year later, following the Qatargate scandal.
The idea of a Europe in which Germany and France have a privileged position does not make sense to Meloni or to Italian conservatives—nor does one that considers countries like Hungary and Poland second-class members.
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