Brussels was all atwitter at the end of its work week (read Thursday) on news that Huawei, the Chinese purveyor of telecom networks, was suspected of paying bribes to more than a dozen MEPs.
The reaction was predictable: feigned shock, calls for swift action and plenty of righteous finger-wagging from the media.
The scandal was such an effective diversion that one could be forgiven for thinking that Viktor Orbán was behind the whole thing.
For while the press corps was churning out breathless reports about sealed offices and “blue and white police tape on doors of European Parliament offices,” the real steal was happening behind closed doors elsewhere in Brussels, far beyond the jurisdiction of the gendarmes.
Not for the first time – and likely not for the the last – Orbán managed to hold Europe hostage with his veto on renewing sanctions against thousands of Russians and entities for another six months.
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