> Because while corruption* is still rampant in the EU > *also known as lobbying with so much money you can buy millions of times as much “free” speech as ever

> Because while corruption* is still rampant in the EU > *also known as lobbying with so much money you can buy millions of times as much “free” speech as everyone else. Firstly, corruption is not "rampant" in the European Union, it is on average the least corrupt political organization on this planet: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022 Secondly, lobbying is not corruption, it is legalized, registered and regulated in most EU members and at the Union's level even more so. If interest groups cannot communicate their interests to politicians, how do you expect politicians to inform their votes, make laws, and take decisions? Should they just guess or know everything about every topic they are solicited about? Should they "Google" the answers (the irony here should strike you in regards to the original post)?