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Eva Kaili's career charted a meteoric rise from student activism in Greece to the highest echelons of European lawmaking but now faces an equally precipitous fall after her arrest in a corruption probe involving World Cup host Qatar.

European Parliament’s senior leaders have agreed unanimously to strip the Greek of her role as one of the body’s vice-presidents after she was implicated in the scandal

‘She has nothing to do with financing from Qatar, nothing - explicitly and unequivocally.’

The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit Brussels.

After all-night negotiations, the European Union struck a political deal on Tuesday to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement, a world-first scheme aiming to support European industries as they decarbonise.

The European Parliament was on Monday getting to grips with allegations of huge cash bribes given to MEPs by figures working on behalf of World Cup host Qatar.

The European Union’s top official says the allegations of corruption targeting a vice-president of the European Parliament are of “utmost concern."

The president of the European Parliament warned members Monday that alleged bribery by a foreign power was an attack on democracy, after Belgian investigators charged a senior MEP with corruption, adding that MEPs would receive “no impunity” in the corruption probe.

Qatar, the Gulf state that is alleged to be behind the scandal, rejects any attempts to associate it with the misconduct

The European Parliament moved on Monday to strip one of its members of her role as vice president after she and others faced criminal charges over allegations Qatar lavished them with cash and gifts to influence decision-making.