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I wonder how many golf trips with steak dinners and female "companions" the bureaucrats awarding the contracts got treated to...

The German government has been lauded as this great bastion, "Look, their economy is still running!", but it's also has its corrupt elements. Besides, the whole roaring economy thing is related to making the rest of Europe peg its currency to the German one by way of the Euro, making the rest of the continent suffer...

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We've already been fined by the EU for refusing to work against corruption. It's a big thing here and voters only care for a few months after the news reports, if that much.

How can I vote to replace corruption?

Don’t vote for the most egregious offenders. I’d say on a party base that’s CDU and AfD, followed by SPD (with our CumEx-"I can’t remember"-chancellor Scholz). Short term, nothing would happen. But if people en large refused to allow corruption, party politics would change.

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This makes it sound like Germany had chosen to introduce the Euro whereas [1]:

>President François Mitterrand argued for the single currency because he hoped to bolster French influence in an EU that would otherwise fall under the sway of a unified Germany

However, you can argue that the continent suffers because Germany had reduced its labor costs [2], which unnecessarily moved production processes.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/11/17/the-time-bomb-a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

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