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MEP, Tran vice-chair, and friend of Azerbaijan, Latvia's Andris Ameriks

Investigation

No record of Latvian MEP's 'official' Azerbaijan trip

Last June, a Latvian socialist MEP went to Azerbaijan and sang its praises — but the EU Parliament committee he claimed to represent had no idea he was there.

The story of Andris Ameriks' freewheeling trip is the second in a series together with Swedish-German investigative platform Blankspot on how Azerbaijan cultivates friends in the EU institutions.

Blankspot's first investigation uncovered ho...

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