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Corruption in the Balkans is impeding EU membership : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra, published 11/1/2019The EU should also insist on greater transparency and accountability, which would curtail pervasive corruption by elected officials.
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hundreds of years that they were occupied by the Ottoman Empire ?
Did an underground resistance to the Ottomans morph into a culture of
"cheating " as a form of resistance which has just become the way things are done ?
Greece entering the EU did not stop them from refusing to pay tax.
Being in the EU economy was not compatible with their customary
attitude to tax and that is what got Greece into so much trouble.