THE TAWDRINESS OF EUROPEAN POLITICIANS is surveyed in a piece by Mr.
Stuttaford in today's National Review that talks about
- German foreign minister Joschka Fischer's terrorist links
- Former French prime minister Lionel Jospin's covert Communism
- Former French president and current EU constitution writer Giscard D'Estaing's
acceptance of diamonds from the cannibal emperor he supported
- Soon-to-be chief of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet's recent trial
(but acquittal) for approving false accounts at Credit Lyonnais
- Former French prime minister Edith Cresson's current criminal charges of forgery
and conflict of interest as an EU politician
- Former British opposition leader Neil Kinnock's and former Luxemburg prime
minister Jacques Santer's resignations as EU Commissioners (along with the entire
rest of the Commission) after a report was published of widespread corruption,
- French President Chirac's $2,000,000 reimbursement for food and drink expenses
while mayor of Paris.
The article doesn't discuss every example of corruption; it goes light on Italy, and
wasn't there some big-time German corruption in the past few years? But it takes us up-
to-date on the squelching of efforts by some bureaucrat-auditors to expose corruption in
the EU Commission.
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