Post by buccaneer on Feb 3, 2023 11:23:01 GMT
Eurocrats more concerned with the EU's sleazy image than corruption itself.
Rishi's set belt wearing is more of a concern to pro-EU UK media outlets than corruption within the EU.
Qatargate, the huge corruption scandal engulfing the EU, seems to be of little interest to the mainstream media in the UK. Far more column inches and airtime have been devoted to Rishi Sunak’s failure to wear a seatbelt than to this mega-scandal
in Brussels, in which numerous members of the EU oligarchy and their friends in NGO-land stand accused of taking cash bribes from the Qatari government. Eva Kaili, the former vice-president of the European Parliament, was arrested and charged
with corruption in December, and is currently being detained in a jail just outside of Brussels.
As far as the Remainer lobby and its friends in Brussels are concerned, the main problem is not the allegedly corrupt behaviour of pro-federalist EU bigwigs and their associates, but the ammunition that this scandal provides to Eurosceptics.
As the Guardian’s Simon Tisdall argued when Qatargate first erupted, the scandal is ‘Good news for the world’s autocrats – EU sleaze is a huge own goal for democracy’. I have met numerous Eurocrats in Brussels who share Tisdall’s view. Many of
them appear indifferent to the extraordinary crimes that have been alleged. As far as they are concerned, the real crime is that corrupt MEPs have provided their opponents with a valuable propaganda tool.
As one commentator in the New European has complained, the scandal ‘feeds into the political Eurosceptic argument that the EU is a corrupt mess staffed by self-interested bureaucrats, a view that will now win new
sympathisers… Eurosceptics andEurophobes will see it all as confirmation that we are better off out of it and that the institutions of the EU are corrupt.’
www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/03/the-media-blackout-over-qatargate/
Rishi's set belt wearing is more of a concern to pro-EU UK media outlets than corruption within the EU.
Qatargate, the huge corruption scandal engulfing the EU, seems to be of little interest to the mainstream media in the UK. Far more column inches and airtime have been devoted to Rishi Sunak’s failure to wear a seatbelt than to this mega-scandal
in Brussels, in which numerous members of the EU oligarchy and their friends in NGO-land stand accused of taking cash bribes from the Qatari government. Eva Kaili, the former vice-president of the European Parliament, was arrested and charged
with corruption in December, and is currently being detained in a jail just outside of Brussels.
As far as the Remainer lobby and its friends in Brussels are concerned, the main problem is not the allegedly corrupt behaviour of pro-federalist EU bigwigs and their associates, but the ammunition that this scandal provides to Eurosceptics.
As the Guardian’s Simon Tisdall argued when Qatargate first erupted, the scandal is ‘Good news for the world’s autocrats – EU sleaze is a huge own goal for democracy’. I have met numerous Eurocrats in Brussels who share Tisdall’s view. Many of
them appear indifferent to the extraordinary crimes that have been alleged. As far as they are concerned, the real crime is that corrupt MEPs have provided their opponents with a valuable propaganda tool.
As one commentator in the New European has complained, the scandal ‘feeds into the political Eurosceptic argument that the EU is a corrupt mess staffed by self-interested bureaucrats, a view that will now win new
sympathisers… Eurosceptics andEurophobes will see it all as confirmation that we are better off out of it and that the institutions of the EU are corrupt.’
www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/03/the-media-blackout-over-qatargate/