Comments on: PSOE to support PP corruption in Valencia to avoid losing European grants

By: kalebeul » Nationalism and the European elections, Berlusconi and the intra-Mediterranean risorgimento

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:38:37 +0000

[...] and PSOE are busy demonising each other for European electoral purposes, but as the disgraceful vote on the Auken report showed, they generally get along pretty well politically speaking once elected and at a safe distance from [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:59:58 +0000

I’m interested in the money-laundering angle: do the PP, PSOE, CiU etc use different accountants/entities/etc, or do they bump into each other in bank receptions in Andorra, Gibraltar etc?

By: A Nun

A Nun — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:39:22 +0000

I suppose one of the factors in all this is cost. The PSOE was probably hoping to blame all the illegal development on evil Anglo-Saxons and so get away with demolishing it all for nothing. However if (as things you’ve linked to imply) total value of British residential is €1300 million and 24% of it is illegal, and if the Europeans say that most of it is illegal because of a (deliberate) lack of coordination between local and regional government, the Andalusian PSOE government is going to face a compensation bill of perhaps around €300 million. Which is probably rather less than they have accumulated in Gibraltar, but still.

By: kalebeul » Blog Archive » Spanish judicial independence

kalebeul » Blog Archive » Spanish judicial independence — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:27:45 +0000

[...] but who don’t see caciquism as the future, I think hope lies–as it has in resistance to Spanish bipartite toleration of construction corruption–in European intervention. The question is how far Europe will be prepared to go, or at what [...]

By: A Nun

A Nun — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:38:35 +0000

Isn’t retrospective action against the Spanish development mafia – most of whose money is now safely offshore – closing the stable door after the whores have bolted?