Lobbyists for Huawei are accused of having funneled tens of thousands of euros to members of the European Parliament who supported a letter in favour of the Chinese tech giant, according to a leaked document from the corruption investigation. The Chinese management of the company’s EU operations is suspected of having endorsed the scheme.
I assume MEPs are cheap because the European Parliament is not nearly as powerful as many national ones. It’s designed to vote on topics predetermined by the European Council and can not initiate new laws on its own. So unless there is already something interesting in the pipeline, it doesn’t make much sense to pay high sums: The target simply can’t make it happen.
I assume MEPs are cheap because the European Parliament is not nearly as powerful as many national ones. It’s designed to vote on topics predetermined by the European Council and can not initiate new laws on its own. So unless there is already something interesting in the pipeline, it doesn’t make much sense to pay high sums: The target simply can’t make it happen.
I don’t think that can explain it alone, since a British MP was in trouble over £4,000 from gambling companies last year