The media blackout over Qatargate

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Qatargate, the huge corruption scandal engulfing the EU, seems to be of little interest to the mainstream media in the UK. 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 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’. This fear of promoting Euroscepticism is clearly behind the UK media’s effective blackout of the scandal. He essentially tries to equate MPs enjoying the hospitality of Qatar in the run up to the World Cup with the outright bribery of public figures in the European Parliament.
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