201April, the EU formulated many disciplinary norms for EU officials, but the number of corrupt officials in the EU is still rising. The agency investigated 46 corruption cases involving EU officials. In the past five years, the image of the EU has been damaged by a series of "cash corruption" scandals.
Since 20 1 1, among EU officials, Slovenian MP Roland Taylor, Austrian MP Ernst Strass, Romanian MP Adrian Ceverin and Spanish MP Pablo Zaba have been dismissed for corruption. According to a poll conducted by Eurobarometer 2065438+in early 2004, 70% of the European people believe that there is corruption in EU institutions.
Corruption in western developed countries is spreading and exported to other countries.
Bribing officials of other countries to obtain huge political and economic benefits is a common means used by multinational companies in western developed countries. As early as modern times, the British East India Company achieved economic plunder and political control over China, India and other countries by wooing and bribing officials from other countries.
With the development of economy and society and the change of international pattern, multinational companies in western developed countries constantly change their forms and bribe officials of other countries through more covert means. For example, since last year, British multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has been caught in a series of overseas bribery scandals, which have spread to China, Poland, Iraq and other countries.
More complicated, western intelligence agencies store the information and accounts of corrupt officials in databases, and then manipulate other countries through them to seek greater strategic interests. In addition, corruption has also become an accessory of western developed countries to export democracy. Throughout the world, "Western-style" democracy has been implanted in Indonesia and Thailand. Instead of successfully curbing corruption, it has fallen into the quagmire of corruption.
The above contents refer to People's Daily-Nanfang Daily: A Perspective of Corruption in Western Developed Countries
The above contents refer to CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection-International Anti-Corruption: EU officials are seriously corrupt.