Eva Kaili, the MEP who praises Qatar, caught with bags of money in her home

Eva Kaili (Thessaloniki, Greece, October 26, 1978) was until last December 9 one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, a position she had held for almost a year. Suspended for being under investigation for corruption, the Belgian press affirms that “several bags full of money” have been found in the residence in Brussels where the representative of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) lives. The father of the Greek socialist (when she fled with a suitcase full of cash) and her current boyfriend, an Italian who worked as an assistant in the European Parliament, have also been arrested.

Eva Kaili She is immensely famous in her country, where she was a TV news presenter, a kind of queen letizia that instead of marrying the heir to the Crown he went into politics. She is the first woman to hold the Presidency for Science and Technology in the European Parliament. In 2019 she was re-elected as MEP for the 2019-2024 legislature as representative of Greece.

Alexis Tsipras, former Greek prime minister and current opposition leader at the head of the Coalition of the Radical Left, faced her almost eight years ago, when this woman, already a MEP at the time, and considered in Greece almost a Hellenic goddess, faced this blonde blue-eyed.

Eva Kaili He was then 36 years old, and he was radically against the referendum with which the then Greek president wanted to vote against Europe. Kaili graduated in architecture, but her vocation for communication and her imposing physique led her to work as a television presenter and from 2004 to 2007 she appeared on the main Greek channel, Mega Channel. She even got to participate in a movie, a mess that narrated the life of a man determined to make her dreams come true.

But for Eva Kaili Being a presenter was not enough and she went from television to politics. She has been a member of the PASOK (Greek Socialist Party) youth since she was 14 years old but her career as a public servant began in 2009. Her first high-profile knock came in 2011, when she voted in the Greek chamber against a measure their own leader, Papandreou, starring in a kind of tamayazo.

His jump to the European Parliament took place after the 2014 elections. She soon appeared on the lists of the most attractive female deputies. But it would be absurd to believe that his achievements are due to his physique: he studied Architecture and Civil Engineering, has a Master of Arts, is a PhD in Political Economy and took an economics course at Harvard University, in addition to studying at the Greek School. of Journalism. Business Insider already described her in 2011 as “the most popular Greek politician in the world” and the German The mirror he praised his work saying that it is a “foresighted policy”.

“The World Cup in Qatar is a testament to how sports diplomacy can achieve the historic transformation of a country through reforms that have inspired the Arab world. Qatar is at the forefront of workers’ rights,” he said to qualify. to the state that is supposed to have bribed the plot that is being investigated. Kaili, as she posted on Twitter, met with Qatari Labor Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri, repeating his praise of “Doha’s commitment to workers’ rights.” Kaili, who has forcefully defended holding the World Cup in Qatar, and which ensures that Human Rights are respected in the Arab country, went so far as to request the elimination of the Schengen visa requirement for Qatari tourists.

The Vice-President of the @Europarl_EN, @EvaKailimet with ???????? Prime-Minister, @KBKAlThani.
The ???????? #EU official reaffirmed the strong interest of the #EuropeanUnion – in its entirety – to strengthen relations with #Qatar.@EUinQatar @QatarMissionEU https://t.co/c6m5BVOcUg pic.twitter.com/sSBVWDWEka

— Cristian Tudor (@CristianTudorEU) November 1, 2022

Her current boyfriend, also involved

Eva Kaili’s boyfriend (some Italian media say he is her husband) is called Francesco Giorgi, a Milanese who was a parliamentary assistant to Antonio Panzeri, a member of the European Parliament in the last legislature. Both have been arrested. The link between the boyfriend of the Greek MEP and Panzeri continues despite the fact that Panzeri is no longer in the European Parliament.

Pier-Antonio Panzeri, also a socialist, former MEP, has acted in defense of the interests of Qatar, Panzeri being the alleged ringleader of the plot. The operation known on December 9 is based on an investigation underway since July of this year. The objective of the plot would be to try to influence the economic and political decisions of the European institutions in favor of Qatari interests, in exchange for large sums of money and gifts, of which the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has been able to recover 600,000 euros. .