Lobbyists for Huawei are accused of having funneled tens of thousands of euros to members of the European Parliament who supported a letter in favour of the Chinese tech giant, according to a leaked document from the corruption investigation. The Chinese management of the company’s EU operations is suspected of having endorsed the scheme.
Did you have higher expectations of western politicians or think those were non-western rates?
Neither; it’s just that these are theoretically the most powerful people in the country and yet can be bought for 10k. I know they’re supposed to be servants of the people and all that, but still maybe pay them more so it’s at least more expensive to bribe them?
Okay Europeans (and Westerners in general), why are your politicians so fucking cheap to bribe?
Did you have higher expectations of western politicians or think those were non-western rates?
Neither; it’s just that these are theoretically the most powerful people in the country and yet can be bought for 10k. I know they’re supposed to be servants of the people and all that, but still maybe pay them more so it’s at least more expensive to bribe them?
That’s the worse part. They are already paid well, they’re just greedy assholes.
Actually the worse is that we keep getting them elected and letting them get away with it probably.