> Kaili also alienated MEPs on a panel dedicated to the Middle East when she freelanced her own trip after Doha canceled the group’s visit. The Parliament’s Delegation for Relations With the Arab Peninsula (DARP) had been planning to head to Qatar just ahead of the World Cup in November, to visit tournament facilities and observe labor law changes.
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> With barely a month’s notice, however, Qatar’s consultative assembly, known as the Shura Council, asked to postpone. Instead, Kaili went to Qatar the week the full delegation was supposed to be there — and gave full-throated praise to the emirate’s labor reforms. According to local press, she said she was there representing 500 million European citizens who see the country’s progress as representing common values.
I bet this is going to be her defense. “I was truly convinced they transformed labor rights” etc. The money would probably be compensation for coffee or something
> Van Hulten said the 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.” Alemmano likewise predicted this would just be the “tip of the iceberg,” hoping a pile-up of scandals would create political momentum for an independent ethics system.
Amen
How do you keep €600k in your office just like that? What levels of carelessness is that?
>Qatar visa liberalization
Romanians rightly called it as bullshit a few days ago and it seems rightly so. It seems like a lot of money exchanged hands and now it’s coming into plain sight. Kudos Romanians.
🇬🇷🤝🇮🇹 💰💰
Poison these rats out of the parliament.
After FIFA’s decision to give the World Cup to Qatar it became apparently clear, that Qatar spends lots of monies. That creates desire. Bribes are a form of lobbying in a more direct way one could say.
and of course something like this happens short after:
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> Kaili also alienated MEPs on a panel dedicated to the Middle East when she freelanced her own trip after Doha canceled the group’s visit. The Parliament’s Delegation for Relations With the Arab Peninsula (DARP) had been planning to head to Qatar just ahead of the World Cup in November, to visit tournament facilities and observe labor law changes.
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> With barely a month’s notice, however, Qatar’s consultative assembly, known as the Shura Council, asked to postpone. Instead, Kaili went to Qatar the week the full delegation was supposed to be there — and gave full-throated praise to the emirate’s labor reforms. According to local press, she said she was there representing 500 million European citizens who see the country’s progress as representing common values.
I bet this is going to be her defense. “I was truly convinced they transformed labor rights” etc. The money would probably be compensation for coffee or something
> Van Hulten said the 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.” Alemmano likewise predicted this would just be the “tip of the iceberg,” hoping a pile-up of scandals would create political momentum for an independent ethics system.
Amen
How do you keep €600k in your office just like that? What levels of carelessness is that?
>Qatar visa liberalization
Romanians rightly called it as bullshit a few days ago and it seems rightly so. It seems like a lot of money exchanged hands and now it’s coming into plain sight. Kudos Romanians.
🇬🇷🤝🇮🇹 💰💰
Poison these rats out of the parliament.
After FIFA’s decision to give the World Cup to Qatar it became apparently clear, that Qatar spends lots of monies. That creates desire. Bribes are a form of lobbying in a more direct way one could say.
and of course something like this happens short after:
https://www.dw.com/en/qatar-signs-gas-export-deal-with-germany/a-63923323
👏👏 Wish whoever was lead investigator came to Ireland and looked in to our housing emergency.