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EU corruption has historically taken a wide range of forms demonstrated so vividly with successive scandals in banking, tax avoidance, a host of malpractice
https://truepublica.org.uk/eu/corruption-european-union/
It’s a good idea not to get into Brexit debates for any reason if you can avoid it. A recent conversation had me going back into it and finding the curious case of a report in 2014 that concluded that EU corruption could amount to €120 billion a year. Two years later another larger study published by the EU Parliament concluded that number is closer to €1 trillion per year.
What does €1 trillion mean?
“To put that figure into a global context: it could end world hunger (annual cost: €229 billion); provide basic education to all children in 46 low and middle-income countries (annual cost: €22 billion), help eliminate malaria (annual cost: €4 billion); provide universal safe water and sanitation (annual cost: €129 billion); expand healthcare to gradually provide universal care to all in low and middle-income countries (annual cost: €115 billion); make the necessary yearly investment required to give everyone access to electricity by 2030 (annual cost: €45 billion); and then there would still be around €360 billion left.”
https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/document/the-costs-of-corruption-across-the-european-union/
That was 2016 so, what’s the latest information, what’s the latest report? Well, it seems like publishing another report was scrapped https://euobserver.com/institutional/136775 which leads back to the fundamental point that EU proponents seem to overlook. The power in the EU is with the EU Commission, not the EU Parliament. All the votes, all the bluster, all the theatre- are pantomime when it comes to meaningful actions, decisions and legislation.
What can Europeans do about the EU Commission’s refusal to investigate €1 trillion of fraud and corruption every year?
Nothing.
Bulgarian TV Journalist Raped and Murdered After Investigation into EU Corruption - EUROPE
New Post has been published on https://citizentruth.org/bulgarian-tv-journalist-raped-and-murdered-after-investigation-into-eu-corruption/
Bulgarian TV Journalist Raped and Murdered After Investigation into EU Corruption
The murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova is the third death of a prominent journalist in the European Union in the last year.
The body of Viktoria Marinova, a 30-year-old Bulgaria TV journalist, was found on Saturday in a park in the border town of Ruse on the Danube River. She was raped and murdered in a manner forensic experts called “an execution.” Marinova just recently reported on alleged corruption involving EU funds last week. Some believe her death may be related to the TV broadcast of her investigation into fraud with EU funds.
Bulgaria’s interior minister Mladen Marinov disclosed there was no proof that anyone threatened the late journalist on account of her work before she was killed. “It is about rape and murder,” he said. Prime Minister Boyko Borissov added the best criminologists in the country are in Ruse to investigate the murder. They are already processing a large amount of DNA evidence related to the killing, he said.
“Her death was caused by blows to the head and suffocation, and her mobile phone, car keys, glasses and some of her clothing were missing,” said Georgy Georgiev, the regional prosecutor in Ruse town.
Was Viktoria Marinova’s Brutal Murder a Warning Message?
Marinova worked with TVN, a TV station in Ruse and one of the most popular in northeastern Bulgaria. She was also a board member with the station. On September 30, Marinova’s current affairs talk program known as “Detector” relaunched and began with a segment where she interviewed two investigative reporters Dimitar Stoyanov and Attila Biro on alleged corruption of EU funds. The fraud was linked to Bulgarian politicians and businessmen.
A TVN reporter who was a colleague with Marinova expressed shock at her death, saying no one was aware if she was under threat in any way. The journalist, who asked not to be named, added that even the TV station was not under threat in any way related to their work. He said the slain journalist was “extremely disciplined, ambitious…and a person with an extreme sense of justice.”
However, others think Marinova’s death was tied to her report. Dimitar Stoyanov is an investigative journalist with the Bivol.bg website and Attila Biro works with the Romanian Rise Project. Asen Yordanov, owner of Bivol.bg stated his media was aware of several threats to its workers, saying many reporters were evidently in danger since Stoyanov appeared on Marinova’s TV show.
“Viktoria’s death, the brutal manner in which she was killed, is an execution. It was meant to serve as an example, something like a warning,” Yordanov said.
Jan Kuciak, Daphne Galizia, Viktoria Marinova… Where is Jamal Khashoggi?
Marinova is the third journalist to be murdered in the EU in the last year. Malta’s most popular investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed in a car bomb last October. Slovak’s journalist Jan Kuciak was gunned down in February and now Marinova.
In October 2017, up to two Bulgarian journalists held a peaceful protest in capital Sofia against threats from government officials. The country’s deputy prime minister, Valeri Simeonov, is reported to be breathing down the necks of Bulgaria’s top broadcasters and has accused the major media houses of carrying on a huge smear campaign against his person and political activities.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and press freedom organizations around the world have condemned the slaying of Marinova and called for a full investigation into her murder. Marinova’s murder comes the same week that Washington Post Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented more than 1,400 deaths of journalists and media professionals since 2000.
#Bulgaria: After the subject was first reported three weeks ago, RSF expressed concern at threats received by the @BivolBg journalists and called for their safety to be guaranteed.https://t.co/hYK3u8pDb7
— RSF (@RSF_inter) October 8, 2018
#VictoriaMarinova's last broadcast was an interview with investigative journalist @Biro_A & @BivolBg's Dimitar Stoyanov, who were looking into allegations of fraud involving EU funds. The two reporters were detained by Bulgarian police in September. @OCCRP https://t.co/Cw3jMIGebn
— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) October 7, 2018
A Reality Check: Time & Circumstance | Armstrong Economics
A Reality Check: Time & Circumstance | Armstrong Economics
We need to move one step forward in the social-political evolution process toward a world that functions in another and wiser manner, with even perhaps a more mystical concept of who we are. Our political leaders patronize us for our incompetence in staying focused on what they do; content to be ruled always to our detriment. This is our tragic fate of being subjugated to their power and greed as…
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The Audacity of Lagarde – Exempt From Taxes | Armstrong Economics
The Audacity of Lagarde – Exempt From Taxes | Armstrong Economics
Madam Lagarde, the French elitist who agrees with hunting down people for money and robbing them for the benefit of those in government, admitted that her $467,940 annual salary and $83,760 of additional allowances is entirely tax-free, as the IMF is an international organization. For you see, those in government always find ways to exempt themselves from taxes. That helps when they have to raise…
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HP bribing officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland.
Hewlett-Packard Co. pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, when a former employees bribed Russian government officials for a contract.
The plea is a part of a larger agreement with the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. HP agreed to pay $108 million in penalties for bribing officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland.
In April, when the settlement was reached , John Schultz, HP's general counsel, said that the misconduct was limited to a small number of people who are no longer with the company.
How the EU ignores Opt-Outs and why we're poweless to stop it getting its own way
How the EU ignores Opt-Outs and why we're poweless to stop it getting its own way #No2EU #VoteUKIP
Here is another example of the way the corrupt EU works to achieve its ends, that should tell you all you need to know about why we need to leave, NOW.
To summarise as I read it;
Some time ago the EU passed a piece of suspect legislation under the banner of a “Police Co-operation Measure” that gave police forces the ability to exchange data for certain types of road traffic offence.
For once,…
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