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Qatar offered EU lawmakers free World Cup tickets and other lavish gifts to try to improve human rights image

One politician said she had “little doubt that Qatar was buying up European influence.”

Fortune

Ukrainian people receive Sakharov freedom prize

The people of Ukraine received the European Parliament's annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Wednesday to honour their fight against Russia's invasion.

Reuters

Qatar lobbying: European Parliament scandal shows urgent need for tighter regulations

On 11 December, Eva Kaili, vice-president of the European Parliament, and three others were charged and imprisoned in connection with an investigation into suspected corruption linked to Qatar.

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EU-Qatar graft scandal uncovered by year-long, pan-Europe probe, Belgium says

Belgium's intelligence service worked closely with other European countries for more than a year to uncover the graft scandal now rocking the European Parliament, the justice ministry said.

Reuters

Europe to tax carbon emissions linked to industrial imports from 2023

EU member states have annoucned the adoption of a mechanism that would bring the bloc's industrial imports under environmental targets by charging for the carbon emissions linked to their production.

Radio France Internationale

Kaili feels betrayed over European Parliament stance in Qatar graft scandal -lawyer

Eva Kaili feels betrayed by European Parliament colleagues who decided to strip the Greek MEP of her role as vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar, her lawyer in Athens told Reuters.

Reuters

European parliament sacks vice president amid corruption probe

Eva Kaili is one of four charged in the alleged bribery case in which prosecutors pointed fingers at a Gulf nation.

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Factbox-The European Parliament's cash-for-influence scandal

Belgian authorities have charged four people linked to the European Parliament over allegations World Cup host Qatar lavished them with cash and gifts to influence decision-making.

Reuters

Apple must switch to USB-C or port-free iPhone by December 2024 in EU

Date fixed for phase out of new Lightning-connected iPhone models in European Union

Evening Standard

European lawmaker Eva Kaili's stellar rise hit by Qatar probe

Eva Kaili's career charted a meteoric rise from student activism in Greece to the highest echelons of European lawmaking but now faces an equally precipitous fall after her arrest in a corruption probe involving World Cup host Qatar.

Reuters

Who is Eva Kaili? MEP at the centre of the corruption scandal shaking up Brussels

European Parliament’s senior leaders have agreed unanimously to strip the Greek of her role as one of the body’s vice-presidents after she was implicated in the scandal

Evening Standard

EU parliament sacks vice president charged in Qatar bribe probe

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - The European Parliament sacked one of its vice presidents on Tuesday amid corruption accusations allegedly linked to World Cup host Qatar, as EU officials scrambled to contain a widening scandal.

AFP

Eva Kaili denies receiving cash from Qatar as EU corruption row grows

‘She has nothing to do with financing from Qatar, nothing - explicitly and unequivocally.’

The Independent UK

EU parliament to sack vice president in Qatar bribe claim

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - The European Parliament took a first step Tuesday in efforts to restore its credibility, amid allegations of corruption linked to World Cup host Qatar, moving to ditch one of its own vice presidents.

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Lawyer for corruption-accused Greek MEP says she's 'innocent'

Athens (AFP) - The lawyer for a detained Greek member of the European Parliament on Tuesday said his client was "innocent" after she was charged with corruption in a probe into suspected bribes from World Cup host Qatar.

Reuters

European Parliament strips Eva Kaili of VP role over Qatar graft scandal

The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit Brussels.

Reuters

EU strikes deal on world-first carbon border tariff

After all-night negotiations, the European Union struck a political deal on Tuesday to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement, a world-first scheme aiming to support European industries as they decarbonise.

AFP

EU democracy 'under attack' as parliament rocked by Qatar bribe claims

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - Leaders of the EU Parliament accused foreign powers on Monday of trying to corrupt European democracy, as a probe into alleged bribes from World Cup host Qatar widened.

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Radio France Internationale

Qatar bribery scandal 'threatens credibility' of European parliament

The European Parliament was on Monday getting to grips with allegations of huge cash bribes given to MEPs by figures working on behalf of World Cup host Qatar.

AFP

Greek MEP Eva Kaili, ex-TV host accused of taking bribes

Athens (AFP) - Only 11 months after she became a European Parliament vice president, Greek MEP Eva Kaili is at the heart of an alleged corruption scandal involving Qatar and the EU, a far cry from the days when she presented the news.

The Independent UK

EU chief calls for stricter ethics rules amid scandal

The European Union’s top official says the allegations of corruption targeting a vice-president of the European Parliament are of “utmost concern."

AFP

Greek MEP Eva Kaili, ex-TV presenter accused of taking bribes

AFP

EU parliament's credibility rocked by Qatar bribe claims

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - The European Parliament scrambled Monday to get ahead of the widening scandal of alleged huge cash bribes from figures working on behalf of World Cup host Qatar.

France 24

EU chief says there will be 'no impunity' amid corruption probe

The president of the European Parliament warned members Monday that alleged bribery by a foreign power was an attack on democracy, after Belgian investigators charged a senior MEP with corruption, adding that MEPs would receive “no impunity” in the corruption probe.

Al Jazeera

Four people charged in EU parliament corruption investigation

Qatar, the Gulf state that is alleged to be behind the scandal, rejects any attempts to associate it with the misconduct

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