BRUSSELS SAYS EUROPE IS CORRUPT BUT PROPOSES NO PAN-EU REFORMS
February 1st, 2014
CORRUPTION hurts the European Union (EU) economy to the tune of Euro EUR120 billion a year, the first pan-EU anti-corruption report issued by the European Commission has argued. Indeed, no EU counties are free from corruption, the EU home affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, who is from Sweden – usually regarded as one of Europe’s cleanest countries.Despite issuing detailed fact sheets on each of 28 EU countries yesterday (Monday Feb 3), the Commission tried to avoid ranking the states according to their propensity for graft – the idea was to avoid a ...
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