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NICK WRIGHT examines the Qatargate scandal that has engulfed the EU bureaucracy and now the International Trade Union Confederation following the arrest and conditional release of its general secretary Luca Visentini
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THE corruption crisis engulfing the European Union and the Socialist and Democrats grouping in the European Parliament has reached a new stage.

The common reference point for each of the interlocking scandals is Qatar and the attention that the football World Cup brought to that state’s notoriously exploitative and repressive labour system. 

Attention just recently centred on one Henrik Hololei, the Estonian boss of the European Commission’s transport operation, who is facing allegations concerning his extensive Qatar Airways business-class trips. 

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