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Originally Posted by Mythica
You keep calling it the corrupt EU, is nowhere else corrupt that we would be trading with outside the EU?
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I decided to do a bit of data mining on how corrupt the EU is as Transparency International publish a global index each year and you can download the complete data set (here -
https://www.transparency.org/files/c...ullResults.zip) and have a tinker..
The least corrupt nation globally is Denmark and the worst is Somalia. The UK is in joint 11th place behind 6 EU countries, 2 EFTA countries and New Zealand, Singapore and Canada.
For reference, the USA is in 22nd place and China is in 87th place.
There is a tab in the data set to filter just on EU countries. For EU countries, of course Denmark is the least corrupt. The UK is in 7th place and the most corrupt is Bulgaria which is in 77th place globally. If you average out the scores, if the European Union was a country, it would be in 29th place globally, between the Bahamas and Portugal.
The EU score seriously get dragged down by countries such as Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria!
Of course what isn't in this data set is the EU as an organisation so we will need to take Micks word for it that the EU is corrupt as an organisation