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Top tips for staying out of trouble in the European Parliament
Why not? Because it’s illegal and degrades democracy … and could get you arrested and booted from your group. Not that these consequences prevented the Qatargate scandal, which hit the Parliament in December 2022 and concerned allegations that current and …