What the rule of law looks like in Brussels: MEPs and assistants bribed by Qatar - UK Column News

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Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-16th-december-2022
- Eva Kaili MEP busted by Belgian federal authorities taking stashes of cash, allegedly to grease the wheels of the Doha World Cup, praise Qatari workplace standards and to vote for visa-free Qatari access to Schengen countries
Nieuwsblad: Caught red-handed with a bagful of banknotes
- Eva Kaili's lobbying exemplified by this tweet
- Alleged kingpin is Italian former MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri; also implicated is Marie Arena MEP, a former chief minister of the French-speaking community within Belgium
De Standaard graphic on shown screen: What we know about Qatargate
De Telegraaf: Arrested vice-president of the European Parliament is suspended
Dutch political journalist Hans van Willigenburg: Operation Damage Control is in full swing
MEPs "suddenly" discover that Kaili had been behaving oddly in the chamber for some time
- Unser Mitteleuropa: Kaili was a member of Soros think tanks with high-up Hungarians
- Alexander Bakker of the Brussels press corps: Disgruntlement at European Commission press conference as journalists are given only two question slots to ask Ursula von der Leyen about the corruption scandal at the European Parliament
- Alex Thomson commentary: The supreme irony was the reported raid on Panzeri's charity with swanky Brussels address, named Fight Impunity (sic)
- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gives his take in two tweets on corruption and the rule of law

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