Less than a year before the next European elections (9 June 2024), Raphaël Glucksmann is sounding the alarm: the threats of foreign interference, primarily Russian and Chinese, are stronger than ever. As soon as he was elected in Strasbourg in 2019, the Social Democrat MEP (S&D-Place publique) had prompted the creation of a special Commission (which he chairs) on this theme, because he was "fed up with the naivety and indolence" of European leaders in the face of adverse maneuvers. It is certainly not only Moscow and Beijing. Qatargate, the recent scandal involving the handing over of suitcases of banknotes to MEPs, shows that many states are bribing elites to push their cause.
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