FEBRUARY
4TH, 2014 6:21
The EU is corrupt, and so are national governments – it's in the nature of human organisation
For
the EU to lecture the member states about corruption is rather like Al Capone
lecturing the cops about corruption: the charge may have an element of truth,
but it's the chutzpah that draws the eye.
I've
blogged often enough about Brussels sleaze. Indeed, it was the subject of my
very first post here seven years ago. So let me, on this occasion, make a
different observation.
When
we ask why corruption is bad in certain member states, or in the Brussels
institutions, we miss the point. Corruption is the normal condition of human
society. Ever since the first farms, the first villages, people have found ways
to loot their neighbours. At first, marauding bands rustled livestock and
pillaged crops, but it didn't take long for such theft to be systematised
through protection rackets, tithes, tolls and taxes…. Read
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