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Corruption across EU 'breathtaking' - EU Commission
BBC News ^
| February 3 2014
Posted on 02/03/2014 9:58:17 AM PST by knighthawk
The extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and it costs the EU economy at least 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says.
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem has presented a full report on the problem.
She said the true cost of corruption was "probably much higher" than 120bn.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; europe
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posted on
02/03/2014 9:58:39 AM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: knighthawk
You reap what you sow.
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:03:42 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
To: knighthawk
The EU is simply a ponzi scheme, and they need new suckers to keep it going.
Like all ponzi schemes, there aren't enough suckers on the planet to make it work.
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:06:15 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: knighthawk
WHAT! There’s corruption in the halls of the EU? Shocking I tell ya.
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:09:33 AM PST
by
rktman
(Under my plan(scheme), the price of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket! Period.)
To: knighthawk
Impossible. The Euros are our superiors in every way, to be emulated.
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:31:15 AM PST
by
lurk
To: lurk
And Obama looks to Europe as the better model? LOL
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:35:49 AM PST
by
SIRTRIS
To: knighthawk
I heard that in Florida, of the 1600 medicare facilities sent checks last year by the government 500 were bogus and the offices were simply P.O. boxes and many were simply fronts for foreign criminal organizations.
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posted on
02/03/2014 10:52:44 AM PST
by
edcoil
( "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal)
To: knighthawk
It's particularly bad in the so-called PIGS countries--Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. These four countries are hugely responsible for the near-death experience with European sovereign debt back in 2011.
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posted on
02/03/2014 11:00:28 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: knighthawk
Thatcher was right.... still IS!!
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posted on
02/03/2014 11:27:48 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: knighthawk
Scary is that we have folks on ER pushing so hard for Ukraine to join EU...and Obama to sign the Free Trade deal with EU
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posted on
02/03/2014 3:44:46 PM PST
by
SeminoleCounty
(A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
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