nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221216-001634-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221215s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221216-001634-0 doi eng 342 23 Korkea-aho, Emilia Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-5226-1670 The Qatar Scandal and Third Country Lobbying Korkea-aho, Emilia Verfassungsblog 2022-12-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The EU was given the worst kind of early Christmas present: a corruption scandal that has rocked the Union to its core giving ammunition to anti-EU populist actors and drawing attention and schadenfreude from outside the EU. The facts of the case remain under investigation, but the case has already been approached from many angles.Qatar has been given the role of an international villain in this story, and the EU has used the opportunities to frame the case as malign third country efforts to corrupt the EU. While there is no denying the corrupting role of a third country, the EU’s framing enables it to pose as a victim, which, as I argue in this blogpost, is intellectually dishonest and harmful. CC BY-SA 4.0 Corruption European Parliament Lobbying Third Country Lobbying Transparency Register Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-qatar-scandal-and-third-country-lobbying/ raw object