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Jun 2024
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Power for Sale, Ep. 4: Business as Usual

Financial Times
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With elections just weeks away, and news of more foreign interference scandals in the European parliament, the reporting team gives an accounting of where the investigation and the suspects are to date.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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