With a failed attempt to take Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies’ independence, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has risked a new ’Orange Revolution’ in his country. The fact that […]
Everything Wrong with the Spanish Socialists
Barely a couple of weeks ago, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez opted out his country of NATO’s grand budget increase. He cited economic strain and […]
Von der Leyen’s Journey: From Hero to Villain
Once hailed as Europe’s rock during Covid and war, Ursula von der Leyen now finds herself lampooned as a wet blanket on the Commission’s bonfire. […]
The Most Corrupt in the EU? The EU
Lobbying for Mother Nature as a European “green” lobby group, rainforests and poor, orphaned orangutan babies is trendy. (Insert any random endangered species.) It opens […]
Lessons Still Not Learned
Global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International’s March 13 press release was short, but straightforward. The new allegations of bribery (by now known as the Huaweigate) ‘show […]
USAID: Rotten to the Core
Though, most of our work has been focused on the European Parliament and its (dis)honourable members so far, the recent steps taken by the Trump […]
How Long Until We Can Label the European Parliament as the Hotbed of Corruption
The dust has barely settled over Qatargate, yet, the European Parliament was rocked by another scandal again. The details are still patchy, but the bottom […]
Regina Doherty and The Luck of the Irish
Nowadays, the expression ‘the luck of the Irish’ is thought to be a positive thing, associated with rainbows, leprechauns, four-leaf clovers and alike. But it […]
The Apple from the Tree – The Sienkiewicz Family and its Discrepancies
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was probably the most famous of all Polish writers, dearly beloved in his patria. The first to get a Nobel […]
Need Advice on Lax Interpretation of Law? Call Didier Reynders
“We face a systemic problem rather than isolated violations of European Law.” Probably Didier Reynders himself didn’t think that this statement would backfire at him. […]