‘Qatargate’: ‘We need independent oversight,’ says MEP Daniel Freund
By France24
21 December 2022 |
11:54 am
As the purported bribery scandal known as "Qatargate" rocks the European Parliament, FRANCE 24 speaks to prominent MEP Daniel Freund, who, until 2019, led Transparency International's work on the integrity of the EU institutions. He then took up his mandate as an EU parliamentarian for the Group of the Greens.
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