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The EU institutions’ ethical insouciance

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Mari Eccles has an interesting Politico piece on EU corruption and its lack of interest in cleaning up or even investigating its Augean stables. 

How the EU always gets away with it

From fraud to nepotism to revolving doors between the public sector and industry, the stench of impunity is pervasive.

In the swish hotel conference rooms and cafés of the Brussels EU quarter, the indignation was palpable: Why had poor Henrik been singled out?

Henrik Hololei, a gregarious Estonian who had reached the heights of director-general in the EU’s civil service, had been caught accepting freebies from the government of Qatar while his department was negotiating a lucrative aviation deal ― with, ever so coincidentally, Qatar.

It was fine, the European Commission said when the matter came to light in 2023: All his free flights had been signed off by a senior person in the department. Trouble was, the senior person in the department was Hololei.

The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder that this is the festering mess that Keir Starmer is clearly intent on bowing the knee to.

“The EU institutions’ ethical insouciance and political unaccountability has produced a culture of impunity that not only harms EU citizens’ trust in democratic institutions, but also lends itself to be weaponized by anti-EU politicians both within and outside of the Union,” said Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law at HEC Paris, and founder of the Good Lobby NGO.

While national governments live and die at the ballot box ― meaning that corruption and a lack of accountability often come back to bite them ― the EU’s world is murkier and more opaque.



Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-eu-institutions-ethical-insouciance.html


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