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Politico (26 May 2025)

MARI ECCLES

From fraud to nepotism to revolving doors between the public sector and industry, the stench of impunity is pervasive.

In the swish hotel conference rooms and cafés of the Brussels EU quarter, the indignation was palpable: Why had poor Henrik been singled out?

Henrik Hololei, a gregarious Estonian who had reached the heights of director-general in the EU’s civil service, had been caught accepting freebies from the government of Qatar while his department was negotiating a lucrative aviation deal ― with, ever so coincidentally, Qatar.

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