The outbreak of the corruption scandal also caused a ridiculous situation because, according to the expectation, the current member candidates - including Albania - must learn the structure of democratic institutions from the European Union, from the bloc whose parliament is tainted by an unprecedented corruption scandal, and from those in the West from countries where corruption cases abound - this is how Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama assessed the situation in Brussels.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama took a jab at the President of the European Parliament in connection with the corruption scandal in Brussels that shook the continent to its foundations. The Prime Minister said karma had finally caught up with Roberta Metsola and the European Union. Rama sharply criticized the EU for applying a brazen double standard to candidate members. In his opinion, the European Union hypocritically expects significantly more from the candidate members than from its own members, where the corruption scandals affect each other.
Even today, more than half of the countries of the European Union would not be able to join the EU. I am not only talking about the former communists, but also about the founding countries, believe me
- stated the Albanian Prime Minister according to the V4NA article. The European Parliament is currently at the center of a wide-ranging investigation because it is suspected that foreign governments, including Qatar and Morocco, have effectively bought some parliamentarians in exchange for money and other benefits, in exchange for lobbying for the interests of these countries on the EU stage.
Although Roberta Metsola had previously "forgotten" to write an official report about this, shortly after the scandal broke out, she was forced to confess a lengthy list of the gifts she had received from international persons as president.
IN THE CASE OF 125 ITEMS, HE FORGOT TO PREPARE A STATEMENT, IN THIS CONNECTION, BY THE WAY, HE DEFENDED THAT HE SAID THE GREATER PROPORTION WAS RECEIVED NOT BY HIM, BUT BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
Metsola's gift list included items such as a model tower made of gold from leading Moroccan politician Naam Mayara, or a white dress with gold embroidery from Fawzia Zainal, the speaker of the Bahraini parliament.
Bringing up the corruption scandal as an argument, Edi Rama claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos that now the path to accession is much bumpier and more complicated than in the case of previous accessions, for example, Metsola's home country, Malta, also had a much shorter and easier path to the EU bloc. This is immeasurably unfair and infuriating, added the Prime Minister of Albania.
According to Rama
the outbreak of the corruption scandal also caused a ridiculous situation because, according to the expectation, the current member candidates - including Albania - must learn from the European Union how to build democratic institutions.
From the bloc whose parliament is resounding with an unprecedented corruption scandal, and from the Western countries where corruption cases abound.
Source: Origo
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