The latest investigations centred on the European Parliament, this time related to Chinese tech giant Huawei, show that the EU's current ethics system is not fit for the job, according to EU policy expert Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at HEC in Paris.
In 2022, the European Parliament proposed a 14-point action plan in the wake of a cash-for-influence scandal, but it's yet to be implemented. At the time, MEPs and assistants were under investigation for allegedly accepting bribes to act in the interest of foreign actors like Qatar and Morocco.
