It's a missed opportunity not to have used this situation to propose improvements in the EU lobby to transparency register.

There has been a refusal to really change attitudes within leadership, particularly in the European Parliament.

And that's really worrying.

You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.

Hi, welcome. I'm Joanna Lassencom's officer at Corporate Europe Observatory or CEO.

In this episode of EU Watchdog Radio, I will talk to my

colleagues Olivia Huderman and Vicky Kan about what has changed in one year since the

Katargate scandal broke. Katargate, of course, is a still ongoing political scandal involving

allegations that members and former members of the

European Parliament, some of their assistants and members of their families engaged in corruption

by the government of Qatar, Morocco and Mauritania.

What happened in one year?

At first, after the scandal broke, it really looked like there would be a serious investigation

by the parliament itself and a serious scrutiny of what had happened and what had gone wrong

and what the lessons to learn were and that there would be a really major

breakthrough in the rules around lobbying and in the ethics rules of the parliament and the enforcement

of that and overall that's been quite disappointing then to see how relatively little has changed.

There hasn't been an inquiry from the European Parliament to go into the details of this scandal,

the basics of what happened in terms of undue influence by repressive regimes in the European institutions.

The decision was made not to have an inquiry committee of that kind.

So then, of course, also, you cannot really draw the full lessons

if you haven't gone deep into the substance of what the scandal meant for the European Parliament.

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