"The effects of Qatar's interference are colossal," accused the parliamentarian on Franceinfo.
According to her, "we have to clean up quickly" and "we have to change from the inside, from the cellar to the attic, what is happening at European level", thanks in particular to the committee of inquiry of the European Parliament set up .
"It's the tip of the iceberg, the network of corruption that is being unearthed here by Belgian justice, we see that it is Qatar but behind it there is also Morocco, perhaps also Mauritania and Saudi Arabia, it is a much wider network of corruption and which in my opinion even affects the credibility of European democracy", she worried.
"It was made possible by the opacity that exists at European level. This is why I have been fighting since the beginning of my mandate for transparency to become the rule. These institutions must also be changed with an independent ethical authority. at European level," she pleaded.
For the former environmental candidate for the presidential Yannick Jadot, also an MEP, this affair "stunned everyone".
To change things, "there are many measures that we have been carrying out for many years, we environmentalists, it is time for the other groups who refused them to accept them", he wished on Franceinfo.
He notably cited declarations of assets for European parliamentarians at the start and end of their mandate, "a high independent authority" and the obligation for "foreign powers" to register on the register of lobbies.
In this scandal which caused a shock wave in the European Parliament and tensions between Qatar and the EU, Eva Kaili is part of a quartet of suspects imprisoned after an indictment for "belonging to a criminal organization", " money laundering" and "corruption".
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