Interesting how the EU only goes after conservatives for corruption. Come to think of it, we have the same policy in the US.
What do you call this:
LAST March, Costas Karamanlis, just elected as Greek prime minister, shocked his countrymen by announcing that the country was "effectively run by five davatzides (pimps)". His use of underworld slang was meant to discredit a group of businessmen whose cosy relationship with the previous Socialist government and local media bosses had given them an edge in winning public contracts worth over euro 2 billion ($2.5 billion) a year in the run-up to the 2004 Olympics. A clean-up of public life, seen by most Greeks as deeply corrupt after many years of Socialist rule, has become a priority for Mr Karamanlis's centre-right government.
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3773765