THE EU’S REPLY TO QATARGATE: NIPS, TUCKS AND PAPERWORK
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31.07.2023


Politico (July 31, 2023)

BY EDDY WAX AND SARAH WHEATON

 

Calls for a more profound overhaul have been met with finger-pointing, blame-shifting and bureaucratic slow-walking. 

The European Parliament’s response to Qatargate: Fight corruption with paperwork.

When Belgian police made sweeping arrests and recovered €1.5 million from Parliament members in a cash-for-influence probe last December, it sparked mass clamoring for a deep clean of the institution, which has long languished with lax ethics and transparency rules, and even weaker enforcement. 

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