nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230203-113253-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230202s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230203-113253-0 doi eng 342 23 Alemanno, Alberto Author aut Qatargate: A Missed Opportunity to Reform the Union Alemanno, Alberto Verfassungsblog 2023-02-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier When the news broke about the arrest of EU Parliament’s Vice-President Eva Kaili in flagrant offence for corruption and money laundering, many observers instantly qualified Qatargate as the largest and the most damaging scandal affecting the European integration process since its inception. Since then, this prediction proves truer day by day, revelation after revelation. Yet, despite unprecedented media coverage and a shocked public, this scandal has not yet generated within the EU and national political class a good enough response to mitigate its damaging effects. EU leaders can hardly afford to miss this unique opportunity to prepare a convincing answer to the question many citizens will soon be asking: Why vote in the next EU Parliament’s election in 2024? CC BY-SA 4.0 EU ethics body European Commission European Parliament Qatargate Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/qatargate-a-missed-opportunity-to-reform-the-union/ raw object