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Re:Wirecard employees removed millions in cash using shoppin... by bitL on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:16PM (#26916912)
The corruption is low among general population and low-level government offices. High business is very corrupt. Moreover, Germany used to have laws that didn't punish corruption abroad, so they exported massive corruption to Eastern Europe. If you see Eastern Europe as being corrupt, it's because of the sums that arrived there from the West - basically creating a friendly mafia.
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Re:Wirecard employees removed millions in cash using shoppin... by burntoutfire on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:43PM (#26917207)
Eastern bloc became extremely corrupted under the Soviet rule, so Western capital which arrived here was met with much eagerness the accept the bribes...
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Re:Wirecard employees removed millions in cash using shoppin... by durnygbur on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:21PM (#26916963)
Having witnessed "privatisation" during the 90s and 00s in post-Communist Europe, I know what you mean. "Capital has no nationality", they were seriously saying and printing this all over.
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Re:Wirecard employees removed millions in cash using shoppin... by bitL on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:51PM (#26917295)
Germany's behavior was listed in my globalization MBA course as an example of negative effects of globalization and why it is not perceived favorably in some countries, so I am curious how it looked from inside?
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