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by UK-AL 3384 days ago
Honestly, I would not say the EU is good at corporate oversight. They refuse have their accounts audited, tons of other stuff normally considered good governance.
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The EU is the only organisation that has taken on Microsoft, Google, and Apple, among others - and won.

It's a world leader in environmental standards, and some countries - like Germany - are working towards moving to an economy that runs exclusively on renewables.

You're certainly not going to find that kind of resistance in any of the Anglo countries.

you are completely ignoring the collaboration of the Commission with Volkswagen on their diesel emissions fraud, which has resulted in the early deaths of thousands of people

Microsoft bundling a media player is nothing in comparison

of course, MS, Google and Apple are American firms, while VW is German

> you are completely ignoring the collaboration of the Commission with Volkswagen on their diesel emissions fraud

What collaboration? Do you have links? I really ignore it.

Can you give us a source for your claim that EU accounts are not audited?
Of course they are audited, every year. [1] And they are found to be fair and accurate as far as the EU can control it. Issues and corruption happen when the member states are responsible to distribute money - a lot of them seem to be less honest than the Eurocrats.

[1] https://fullfact.org/europe/did-auditors-sign-eu-budget/