The united political outrage in the European Parliament following Qatargate lasted more or less until Christmas.
There was — granted — an ambitious, cross-party resolution voted upon on 15 December, to clean up the political mess collectively by strengthening transparency and ethics rules and installing real, independent enforcement of those.
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Hans van Scharen is a researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory, the NGO watchdog that monitors corporate lobbying in Brussels.