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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by UK-AL on Monday March 20, 2017 @09:57AM (#13914238)
Honestly, I would not say the EU is good at corporate oversight. They refuse have their accounts audited, tons of other stuff normally considered good governance.
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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by TheOtherHobbes on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:15AM (#13914378)
The EU is the only organisation that has taken on Microsoft, Google, and Apple, among others - and won.

It's a world leader in environmental standards, and some countries - like Germany - are working towards moving to an economy that runs exclusively on renewables.

You're certainly not going to find that kind of resistance in any of the Anglo countries.

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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by blibble on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:20AM (#13914417)
you are completely ignoring the collaboration of the Commission with Volkswagen on their diesel emissions fraud, which has resulted in the early deaths of thousands of people

Microsoft bundling a media player is nothing in comparison

of course, MS, Google and Apple are American firms, while VW is German

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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by Oletros on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:39AM (#13914556)
> you are completely ignoring the collaboration of the Commission with Volkswagen on their diesel emissions fraud

What collaboration? Do you have links? I really ignore it.

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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by Oletros on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:35AM (#13914527)
Can you give us a source for your claim that EU accounts are not audited?
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Re:U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks by MagnumOpus on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:21PM (#13915401)
Of course they are audited, every year. [1] And they are found to be fair and accurate as far as the EU can control it. Issues and corruption happen when the member states are responsible to distribute money - a lot of them seem to be less honest than the Eurocrats.

[1] https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/

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