Welcome to the jungle: Raids, arrests, and a crisis of EU credibility | Euractiv

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : This time, the focus is the College of Europe - a prestigious feeder school for European civil servants and diplomats - and the EEAS, which oversees EU delegations around the world.
59% : He later became her successor's top civil servant at the EEAS, reporting to Spanish socialist Josep Borrell, who took over as the EU's top diplomat in 2019.
58% : He was Italy's EU ambassador when she served as foreign minister in 2014.
57% : This latest probe strikes closer to the EU's real centres of influence.
57% : The academy's initial two-year budget, nearly €2 million, came from Borrell's push to expand professional training for EU diplomats.
56% : European prosecutors suspect the two colluded to steer a public contract for a new EU diplomatic academy to the College of Europe, where Mogherini is rector.
56% : The project is funded by the EU's foreign service, which Mogherini used to run; it is also where Sannino held a senior post when the decision over where to base the academy was made.
55% : That question gained new urgency Tuesday following early morning police raids in the heart of the EU quarter and the arrest of two pillars of the bloc's foreign policy establishment.
52% : After Qatargate, a proposal to establish a stronger EU ethics body briefly gained momentum before being quietly throttled - chiefly by the centre-right European People's Party.
52% : If proven, the allegations would touch the core of the EU's diplomatic machinery, long insulated from sustained outside scrutiny.
43% : The case underscores what critics describe as the EU's chronic reluctance to police its own.
41% : As far-right parties hammer Brussels over corruption, the EU's own investigators may be proving them right
41% : Belgian authorities detained Federica Mogherini, the EU's former chief diplomat, and Stefano Sannino, one of the European Commission's most senior civil servants, on suspicion of fraud linked to the awarding of a high-profile contract for an EU diplomatic academy.
40% : The European Anti-Fraud Office, known as OLAF, is already conducting a separate investigation into Sannino over accusations that he used his influence inside the European External Action Service to steer prized senior posts to personal favourites, according to a senior EU official and others familiar with the probe.
35% : The allegations - still unproven - echo the EU's recent scandals: the Qatargate affair and an earlier investigation into Huawei's lobbying efforts, both of which ensnared sitting European lawmakers.
32% : Just how corrupt is the EU?

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