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Khalifa Stadium in Doha, capital of Qatar, under renovations in 2016. Amnesty International says some 3,000 migrants worked on it daily. The EU-Qatar Friendship Group has now been banned (Photo: jbdodane, Flickr)

MEPs scramble to declare paid trips post-Qatargate

MEPs are scrambling to declare trips paid by states, such as Qatar, in the wake of a corruption scandal that has landed the parliament's former vice-president in pre-trial detention for allegedly accepting bags full of cash.

Among them is Romanian centre-right Cristian Bușoi, who chaired the now banned EU friendship group with Qatar between 2019 and 2021.

His office, in an ...

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Khalifa Stadium in Doha, capital of Qatar, under renovations in 2016. Amnesty International says some 3,000 migrants worked on it daily. The EU-Qatar Friendship Group has now been banned (Photo: jbdodane, Flickr)

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