The case of a senior official at the European Commission who happens to lead a Brussels directorate general in charge of developing the EU's neighborhood and enlargement policy while owning a luxury hotel in Bali also speaks volumes about inhibitions, of their lack thereof. Are Eurocrats really paid this well? While Gert Jan Koopman, a native of the supposedly prudish Dutch nation, was raking in dollars from holidaymakers in the Indonesian holiday resort, one of the EU's "main problems" was that Hungary allowed government politicians to sit on university boards of trustees. Conflict of interest, just like corruption, appears to be governed by one specific law now known to physicists as Koopman's theorem: it only ever happens in other places, never with us...
This is slowly but surely undermining the credibility of the European institutions. It could also reinforce, among other reasons, such as the excessive (armed) support for Ukraine, the process in which
recent elections in several EU countries, including Italy, Finland and Spain, have witnessed a right-wing turnaround. In France, Poland and Austria, the forces opposing the EU mainstream are also rather popular. Indeed, the National Rally, Law and Justice and the Austrian Freedom Party, all friends of the Orban government, are now the strongest opposition parties in their countries.
The double standard of corruption, the hoarding of slush monies and warmongering rhetoric is pushing the European mainstream further away from ordinary people, while news about Ms Kaili, Mr Tarabella and their likes is only widening the gap.
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