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How are EU citizens going to prevent a politician favoring for the wrong reasons some big corps while mandated (by doing things... or carefully not doing anythi

How are EU citizens going to prevent a politician favoring for the wrong reasons some big corps while mandated (by doing things... or carefully not doing anything...) and ending up, after his/her mandate, in some proxy of this big corp to be thanked "nicely" (from the bottom of big corp wallet). It is very important to draw a clear line between "right" and "wrong" reasons, because all policitians after their mandate will end up in a corp of some sort, as life is long road.

pjmlp 3y ago
Usually lobbing on this side of the pound is considered corruption, and even though there are several politicians that get away with it, there are also several others that have had to face the courts.
- sylware 3y ago
  It can be very tough to detect: for instance Big Tech has bazillions of proxies or "friendly" companies/corps, and while "in power", they just have to do that: be careful that no significant and efficient regulation is setup (for instance noscript/basic (x)html portals for all "utility" online services, where reasonable). Not to mention: how do you legally "track" where politicians are going after their mandate? Do they have the obligation to publish their source of income or wealth after their mandate for a significant amount of (10+) years? And how to draw the lines between "right" and "wrong" in order to decide to seek justice. For instance in my country it seems a politician was involved in facilitating some russian gaz stuff, and with the war for ukraine, we all discovered he was a high level executive in a gazprom proxy. He had to leave because of the war, and it is only because of that that we found out. You can easily extrapolate that case to others, and most won't probably be detected unless there are people/orgs actively tracking them and their resources for a significant amount of time.

pjmlp 3y ago

Usually lobbing on this side of the pound is considered corruption, and even though there are several politicians that get away with it, there are also several others that have had to face the courts.

sylware 3y ago
It can be very tough to detect: for instance Big Tech has bazillions of proxies or "friendly" companies/corps, and while "in power", they just have to do that: be careful that no significant and efficient regulation is setup (for instance noscript/basic (x)html portals for all "utility" online services, where reasonable). Not to mention: how do you legally "track" where politicians are going after their mandate? Do they have the obligation to publish their source of income or wealth after their mandate for a significant amount of (10+) years? And how to draw the lines between "right" and "wrong" in order to decide to seek justice. For instance in my country it seems a politician was involved in facilitating some russian gaz stuff, and with the war for ukraine, we all discovered he was a high level executive in a gazprom proxy. He had to leave because of the war, and it is only because of that that we found out. You can easily extrapolate that case to others, and most won't probably be detected unless there are people/orgs actively tracking them and their resources for a significant amount of time.