Qatargate Should End For All Time The Desire To Rejoin This Corrupt Body.

Qatargate? EU parliament's culture of impunity is its own creation.

• The Bureau in Strasbourg in December. (Photo: @ European Union 2022 - Source : EP)

By NIKOLAJ NIELSEN 

BRUSSELS, TODAY, 07:25

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In the wake of the largest corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament in over a decade, its president Roberto Metsola blamed "malign actors linked to autocratic third countries" after Belgian police found bags of cash at the home of vice-president Eva Kaili. EU Observer.

But the parliament, and especially its Bureau, has for years seeded a culture of impunity where MEPs and assistants can get away with almost anything.