Wealth, Power Corruption Feeds Rise in EU Nationalism, Populism – Report
SputnikNews.com
22.11.2016
A new index of corruption from Transparency International shows a “deeply troubling relationship between wealth, power and corruption” and a rise in populist and nationalist movements, with corruption central to the story.
The report, People and Corruption: Europe and Central Asia, shows a correlation between people’s perception of political corruption and the rise in populism and nationalism, particularly in Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Poland.
“From Spain to the UK and Turkey, support for populist and nationalist movements is on the rise in Europe and Central Asia. While the reasons are manifold and complex, corruption is central to the story — both the failure of governments to properly address corruption and their complicity in corrupt or clientelist schemes,” the report says.
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