MPs called runny nose and FIFA to compensate all victims of the preparations for this year’s World Cup.

This year’s games are the first World Cup held in the Middle East and the first to be held in the fall. Both the event itself and the circumstances of the attribution of its organization to Qatar arouse great controversy, which reached its peak before its launch.

It is not only about the scandalous conditions in which the economic immigrants who prepared for the World Cup were forced to work, but also about the country’s approach to the rights of sexual minorities or climate issues. .

“Unleashed and systemic corruption”

“This World Cup is a failure from every point of view,” the left-leaning French MEP said in an interview with EURACTIV.pl Manon Aubry. This includes she negotiated the final wording of the resolution adopted on Thursday in which Parliament called runny nose and FIFA to compensate all victims of the preparations for the World Cup.

In the adopted document, MPs pointed out that the Gulf state had won the bid to host the FIFA World Cup on “credible allegations of bribery and corruption”. They also mourned the deaths and injuries of thousands of migrants, mostly working in the construction sector, who helped the country prepare for the tournament.

MPs described corruption at FIFA as “endemic, systemic and deeply rooted”. They pointed out that the process of awarding the 2010 FIFA World Cup to Qatar was not transparent and did not involve a “responsible risk assessment”. According to them, FIFA has also seriously damaged the image of world football.

Parliament calls on EU countries to put pressure on UEFA and FIFA to carry out a fundamental reform of the latter federation. He addressed his appeal in particular to countries that have major national football leagues, such as Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

The reform would include the establishment of “democratic and transparent procedures” for the awarding of the organization of this type of competition and the strict application of human rights and sustainable development criteria for host countries.

Allegations against FIFA at pre-World Cup press conference refuted by boss Gianni Infantino, judging that “to give a unilateral lesson is hypocrisy”. “I think for what we Europeans have done in the world for the past three thousand years, we should apologize for the next three thousand years before teaching others morality,” he said. .

In February last year, the Guardian reported that 6,500 people had died building infrastructure for the World Cup since 2010. South Asian workers.