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Huawei targeted in new European Parliament corruption probe
- jraby3 2y agohttps://archive.md/jRglK https://archive.md/jRglK
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- tgv 2y ago> Why is the police of a single country authorized to investigate EU parliament members just because of the geographical location? The EU is not a nation. It doesn't have a police. Crimes do not take place on its territory, because it has none. So then it'll fall onto the Belgium (or French) police. Wrt to the rest: just asking questions, right?
- Deukhoofd 2y ago> It doesn't have a police It does, Europol. For this case, considering there were raids in multiple different countries within Europe, they probably were involved.
- Y-bar 2y agoEuropol is more like Interpol than FBI in that it has no executive power, it's primary purpose is coordination among national police forces which will conduct actual raids and arrests.
- piva00 2y agoEuropol doesn't have its own enforcement agents, it's an organisation relying on national police forces to enforce its actions. It's a coordinator, not a full blown police force...
- threeseed 2y ago1) Because the crimes are alleged to have occurred in Belgium. That's how jurisdiction works. 2) This is the opposite of convenient. EU would prefer a good working relationship with China given the issues with the US. 3) It was started because there are allegations of corruption. 4) Because no crimes have been committed. 5) Why not ? BlackRock is a global investment bank. It's going to have employees.
- Y-bar 2y agoWhy should Belgium not have jurisdiction over EU citizens living and working in their country? Why do you think this was not initiated via Europol? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221210-belgium-makes-eu-parliament-arrests-in-qatar-corruption-investigation https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221210-belgium-makes-eu...
- blogabegonija 2y agoEva "Cash" Kaili. Part two.
- Deukhoofd 2y agoYou're never going to get rid of bribery and corruption entirely, unfortunately. Greed is way too strong a motivator. Hopefully people actually getting arrested and charged for it makes people think twice though.
- blogabegonija 2y agoEurope is now spending new billions in security. My guess is just new Political drama, a theatre to cover up corrupt spending.
- piva00 2y agoYou can have that opinion but until it's founded in reality it's just that: a baseless opinion. Will there be issues? Of course, whenever money is involved there are issues but as usual: level and degree matter. It's not binary black-and-white.
- blogabegonija 2y agoI bet you need lesson on corruption from EU court then, for exampl. Von der Leyen Commission loses COVID vaccine transparency case ahead of crucial vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMub-tzrKmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMub-tzrKmk
- cbg0 2y agoYour n=1 sample with a case of insufficient transparency provided to the public isn't really enough to make a generalization about corrupt spending.
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- auggierose 2y agoIs it now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_th...
- LadyCailin 2y agoYou’ll notice that in one of the cases, it is creating felons, and in the other, it’s elevating felons to high office. Pretty key difference.
- jisnsm 2y agoEuropean politicians are superhuman and are way above bribes and such inferior, unsophisticated things. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/10/i-asked-to-see-ursula-von-der-leyens-texts-to-pfizers-boss-and-she-went-to-court-to-stop-me-why-the-secrecy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/10/i-aske...
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- DrNosferatu 2y agoWhat about Huawei home internet (fiber) modems / routers? Many large telcos in the EU use them.
- c2h5oh 2y agoThey have a significant DSLAM markeshare too
- heraldgeezer 2y agoThere are other vendors? They are on Huawei because of price... Mine is Zyxel (Taiwan). There are others like Sagemcom (French), Fritzbox (German), not sure if microtik (Latvia) does end user stuff?
- mzajc 2y agoNot sure about the cost, but Telemach in Slovenia uses hardware from Genexis for FTTH, which is EU-based.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoThey have rebranded them as Soyealink
- Nextgrid 2y agoAt this price point, they are all bad, no matter the manufacturer. Home networking equipment is basically a race to the bottom (if there's any innovation, it happens at the hardware level only like faster Wi-Fi cards, etc).
- sunshine-o 2y agoI believe people fundamentally misunderstand what the EU is and how it works. Here is what I have learned from people who know the system very well and after working with it myself: - The EU is designed to be influenced and run by lobbies. And it is in the open and assumed. - The Parliament is a joke. And you can partially blame the member countries who really do not send their best there, because they know it is joke. - It used to be that corruption was not a thing in the EU. Just because none of those Commission people would risk their career and benefits, and it was severely punished. So they wouldn't even accept a cup of coffee from you. Now it does seem things got out of control, at least in the Parliament.
- legacynl 2y agoYou know the bots are out in full force, when the first comment on a China-critical post is what-about-posts about how bad EU is. You can see how threatened they must feel by the amount of trolling they do
- linkregister 2y agoI tire of this internet trend of calling someone who disagrees with you a bot. I also agree with you that whataboutism posters come out in droves whenever there is negative-sentiment news about a non-Western aligned entity.
- somenameforme 2y agoIn general I'd agree that whataboutism is a logical fallacy, since it is basically a form of ad hominem, but it can also demonstrate that an attack itself is unjustified. For instance imagine if a farm was attacked for having laborers pick fruit for pennies per pound. If one doesn't know much about the industry that would indeed sound potentially abusive - especially with sufficiently leading framing, yet it's also the global standard. That doesn't mean it's right, but it also means that allegations against one specific entity for such are, at the minimum, misleading.
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- azernik 2y agoIn what way is Bellingcat a "spook-run operation"?
- borkt 2y agoSee link below): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371139794_Unveiling_the_Bellingcat_Enigma_The_Shadowy_Nexus_of_Intelligence_and_Media?__cf_chl_tk=vCp9FS.6EZ.GBUwVhRLhssvoz6naI1NCJgxG8ZDP3Eo-1741867708-1.0.1.1-PbTtkWejjdfv_gl86hY4O1K4vClt6szcZa_GNyZSdo8 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371139794_Unveiling...
- mzajc 2y agoIf you'd like to make a point against Bellingcat, you should probably avoid citing poorly generated slop.
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- odiroot 2y agoIf anything that just adds more credibility to the story.
- digiou 2y agoIn what definition is Huawei a "smaller dog"?
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- heraldgeezer 2y agoGood. Huawei is a Chinese state run enterprise passing all info to their masters.
- jampekka 2y agoI'm more comfortable with Chinese than US masters.
- heraldgeezer 2y agoOk. Then we are different. And Europe is too. Europe has already shown we do not want Huawei in our 5G core networks. And now this. Are we clear?
- speed_spread 2y agoAre you sure? Publically criticize the American government, then do the same with the Chinese government. Now, did your opinion change? Although I agree that with latest guys it won't be long before they also get a thought police.
- blitzar 2y agoI would rather someone sitting in China wants to persecute me than someone in my own country / town / neighbourhood / home - who can actually persecute me. Likewise if I lived in China, and I had to pick between being spied on by my state or someone half way around the world - I would welcome the CIA to listen in all day long.
- the_mitsuhiko 2y ago> Are you sure? Publically criticize the American government, then do the same with the Chinese government. Now, did your opinion change? Personally I'm less bothered by China. I need to do business in the US, I don't need to do business in China. The US government has a lot of leverage to fuck up my life, I would not care about the reach of the Chinese.
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- antirez 2y agoMy fear is that similar dynamics were at play when the AI act was shaped and approved, with the three European biggest countries unhappy of the content of the act (France, Italy, Germany).
- coffeecantcode 2y agoHighly recommend House of Huawei by Eva Dou, I didn’t know much about the history or background of this monolithic and demonized company so I picked it up and I have to say I found it fascinating. If you’re interested in recent history or telecommunication development over the last 50 years it’s a great read. It’s not a technical deep dive nor a political hit piece, the author wrote for the Washington Post and it really reads like a long and in-depth article. Which is actually nice despite sometimes leaving me wanting for more, definitely made it a quick read. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721789/house-of-huawei-by-eva-dou/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721789/house-of-hua... Edit: Washington Post, not New York Times
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- skrebbel 2y agoMeta note: FTM (Follow The Money) is a small Dutch investigative journalism outfit which has exposed a far amount of bad shit in the Netherlands, and probably had the biggest per-staffer impact of any publication here (if you could somehow quantify that). I wasn't actually aware they had an English-language .eu version but great for them! I found their "about us" page to be a bit obtuse (no names, no locations, making it very similar to the "about" pages of fake news sites and extreme-left/right associated magazines), so figured it might be nice to add this bit of context: In NL, FTM is generally considered a respected news organization and they're not particularly associated with any political angle. Basically how it goes in NL is: - FTM writes something - A few nerds pick it up - A day later, bigger news sites write the same story worse, sometimes even crediting FTM - Scandal ensues
- Ylpertnodi 2y agohttps://www.ftm.eu https://www.ftm.eu
- aurelien 2y agoCorruption at European parliament should be highly and serverly punished by Enforced Works for the rest of their life with abduction of all there good of all their family that have get ane Euro from corruption.
- belter 2y agoSurely you joke about avoiding corruption within the EU. Ursula von der Leyen negotiated privately with CEO's of vaccine companies, while her husband worked for a US supplier of said vaccine companies and her SMS data disappeared. The current European Council president, took such a job directly after being forced to resign as Portuguese prime minister due a corruption scandal, where the Portuguese police found thousands of Euros in hard cash in the office of his assistants. Even more ironic, Portugal got a new prime minister, who two days ago, had to resign due to a....yes...new corruption scandal. So I expect him to get an EU job also soon.
- s_dev 2y agoHe is just saying that if there is corruption there should be harsh consequences not that corruption isn't present already in the EU.
- belter 2y agoYes. But it's a lost cause. It's structural, since EU jobs are compensation roles for failed politicians. If you ever been into inside politics as more than just an elector, you will know this is how lists pre-election are built.
- pabs3 2y agoEurope needs to read this article if they want to do something constructive. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/