Analysis
How the EU always gets away with it
ER Editor: Another one of those Politico pieces that calls a genuine spade a genuine shovel, and you wonder ‘who’s really in charge at that site?’ Notice the mention of the Vatican and UN in […]
Qatargate
WORLD
Huaweigate: Raids in Brussels and an Arrest in France
ER Editor: A continuation of ‘Huaweigate’, yet another EU scandal which broke in March of this year. See our previous coverage HERE. Readers might find this recent report from Corporate Europe Observatory interesting — From […]
WORLD
New corruption scandal rocks EU Parliament, Belgian police conduct raids
ER Editor: A while back the EU had Qatargate to contend with. Now it’s got Huawei-gate. The original report from the Belgian site Le Soir is worth taking a look at. Browsers will translate — […]
WORLD
The EU’s reply to Qatargate: Nips, tucks and paperwork
ER Editor: We have been wondering where things are with the recent EU corruption phenomenon known as Qatargate. It all seems to be a damp squib so far, with two of the MEPs back in […]
WORLD
EU Qatargate judge Michel Claise steps down
ER Editor: We’ve published a fair bit on Qatargate, in which a handful of EU MPs are believed to have given favourable decisions to Qatar and Morocco at the parliamentary level in exchange for payments. […]
Spotlight
EU Parliament exposed as a place of bullying
ER Editor: As with Qatargate, we have to ask why this, why now? A fresh (actually, not really) scandal to hit the EU as a governing structure and the culture in which it operates. Investigations […]
Analysis
The Eurofiles: The EU IS the Sick Man of Europe
ER Editor: Grab yourself a large coffee and kick back. ******** The Eurofiles: The EU as the Sick Man of Europe TOM ZAJA April in Europe is what could be called Dark History Month. There […]
Spotlight
Bent MEPs Vote to Protect Bent MEPs and Their Graft. What Is the Point of the European Parliament?
ER Editor: See our coverage of Qatargate here. ******** Bent MEPs Vote to Protect Bent MEPs and Their Graft. What Is the Point of the European Parliament? The beating heart of the EU institutions is […]
MEDIA
NYT to challenge Von der Leyen on missing Pfizer texts
ER Editor: So the New York Times is hoping to be successful where Bild wasn’t. If successful, obtaining von der Leyen’s text messages to Bourla, which will be stored somewhere in the digital universe, could […]
WORLD
Qatargate’: López Aguilar met twice with the Qatari ‘godfather’ of the plot being investigated by Belgium
Qatargate’: López Aguilar met twice with the Qatari ‘godfather’ of the plot being investigated by Belgium Belgian police identify three meetings between the Qatari Labor Minister and the ringleaders of the plot JORGE MESTRE Belgian […]