In addition to the Greek Eva Kaili, several other MEPs are said to be involved in the funding scandal from Qatar
A new raid on the offices of the European Parliament was carried out by the Belgian police on Monday, according to information reported by Poitico.
The QatarGate scandal is taking on huge proportions, causing tremors in the European Union and its main institution, as, in addition to the Greek Eda Kaili, other MEPs are allegedly involved.
Tsunami of reactions to the huge scandal
The head of the Commission called them “extremely worrying”. Ursula von der Leyenthe accusations against the vice-president of the European Parliament, Eva Kaili.
“The accusations are extremely worrying, very serious,” the president of the Commission said while speaking to journalists. Responding to the criticism, the German official recalled that she has proposed the establishment of an independent ethics body that would be in charge of controlling EU institutions.
Berlin’s intervention was caused by Qatargate, which has caused a political earthquake in Brussels, with four arrests, including Eva Kaili.
“The credibility of the European Union is at stake in the alleged corruption case in the European Parliament,” the German foreign minister warned on Monday. Analena Burbok.
“This is an incredible episode that needs to be cleared up completely with the full force of the law,” Burbock told reporters on her arrival for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
“It’s about the credibility of Europe, so it has to have consequences in different areas,” he added.
On the same wavelength, the German MEP of the Greens Daniel Freudco-chair of Parliament’s cross-party anti-corruption group, described the case as one of “the most serious corruption scandals in Brussels in recent decades”.
The case of funding and bribery against four people from a Gulf state to influence decisions of the European Parliament is “very worrying”, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
“Certainly the news is very, very worrying,” Borrell told reporters.
The case of financing and bribing four people from a Gulf state to influence decisions in the European Parliament, “is damaging” for the institution, the Irish Foreign Minister said on Monday Simon Coveney.
“It’s harmful. It needs to be fully clarified,” Coveney told reporters in Brussels.
“It’s a scandal that we need to bring to light to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he added.
The arrests of the Belgian police in European Parliament on the corruption case in relation to Qatar provokes strong reactions in MEPs and non-governmental organizations, as they call for the immediate improvement of the supervisory function and transparency in the institutions of the European Union.
The Qatar scandal could be “the most egregious case” of corruption Parliament has seen in years, the head of MKO Transparency International told Politico. Michel van Halten.
Van Halter commented that the European Parliament has created a “culture of impunity … with a combination of lax financial rules and controls and a complete lack of independent (or indeed any) ethics oversight”.
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