Romania has been a member of the EU for 10 years. Corruption remains endemic, but that does not appear to bother the EU in the least.
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Romania-Insider.com: Former Romanian interior minister sentenced to 5 years in prison
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
EU politics
The Guardian – Revealed: British university vice-chancellors’ five-star expenses
This is not a sensationalist titbit. Currently British academics are striking to protect their pension funds. Once again basic workers’ rights are under attacs. At the same time scandalously high salaries are being paid to […]
Corruption
Reuters – Explainer: Europe’s money laundering scandal
A nice summary of EU money-laundering – up to now. This story still has a lot of road ahead of it as the US authorities tend to be more strident in their investigations (see the […]
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