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The intelligence services of five European countries began cracking down on the Qatar and Morocco dossiers a few years ago – including raiding Panzeri’s house last summer – for fear of an anti-democratic threat posed by EU-EU relations. States emanates from some parliamentarians and employees of the European institutions. Increasingly close ties lasting ten years that risk influencing European decisions.
Eva Kaili’s positions on Qatar and Morocco are an example of this conditioning, although it should be emphasized that the legislation passed was voted on by the whole of Parliament and it is therefore probably too easy to assume that the investigation launched from Brussels was few Limited concerns acts of the time, such as the resolution in favor of the families of those killed at work in Qatar, the liberalization of visas for Qataris (never passed) and the trade agreements for fish exploitation by Europe in the Western Sahara area.
The alarm may have been triggered by a request from the Spanish secret services about what was happening in Morocco, led by former MP Antonio Panzeri, who had already traveled to the country in 2011 as head of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with the Maghreb. According to PSOE MP Juan Fernando López Aguilar, there may also have been an informant in Parliament, he said in an interview with Canarias Radio.
The fight against money laundering
Olaf, the European Anti-Fraud Office, has also lit a beacon on the allegedly “illegal” financial flows. OLAF Director-General Ville Itälä stated that the agency “follows very closely the issue of serious misconduct by officials or members of the EU institutions and bodies, which may harm the Union’s financial interests and reputation”.
Diplomatic Documents
Meanwhile, the “Maroc Leaks,” confidential diplomatic documents stolen by a hacker in recent years, expose the dense conspiracy Rabat has orchestrated to disseminate fisheries and agriculture trade dossiers with the EU for its own benefit . Agreements based on the exploitation of Western Sahara, an area that has been disputed for years with the Polisario Front, a pro-independence movement of Sahrawis living in the area. The point, however, is that according to the UN, Western Sahara is independent of Morocco. Among other things, a position that will be the basis for the annulment of the two agreements by decision of the European Court of Justice in September 2021.