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The European Commission is not funded by lobbyists. Unless of course you believe the EC members are corrupt.

> Unless of course you believe the EC members are corrupt.

That is exactly what many people believe.

Funnily scandals lately hit the EU Parliament, the only somewhat democratic body over there. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_...

It's a sort of landfill for shitty, unpopular in their home country politicians, too.