International corruption is to blame for rising inequality, mass movements of people and war – we must end this system of oppression
6 years, 8 months ago

International corruption is to blame for rising inequality, mass movements of people and war – we must end this system of oppression

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Last month, the grim story of the Aquarius – a ship carrying 629 migrants from the shores of Libya to Europe – gripped European media, even while major world events such as the extraordinary meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, and the debut of the FIFA World Cup in Russia were going on. Yet it is also Europe’s tax havens and cooperative finance industries, blue-chip banks, legal firms and accounting agencies that have contributed to making corruption an international phenomenon. If we take into account the advent of new financial instruments based on blockchain technology, we are facing a threat to the global financial system so severe 2008 would seem like a mere downturn.

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Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think

Live Mint  

“IT WAS RETRO style," laughs Ruta Kaziliunaite, the co-ordinator of Lithuania’s Special Investigation Service, the country’s anti-corruption police. One issue is that although the EU’s reforms reduce corruption, the billions of euros it distributes can encourage it. When EU aid goes to countries with weak institutions, “it functions like a resource curse", says Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, a corruption scholar who heads …

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