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Nothing infuriates the public more than the feeling that rules are bent to protect the interests of the European institution's members (or top bureaucrats) (Photo: European Commission)

Decline of institutions' moral standards threatens EU

In 1988, Ramsay MacMullen published an interesting analysis about the fall of the Roman Empire, entitled Corruption and Decline of Rome.

For him, the Empire had fallen because it was corrupt. Moral corruption was the essential concept. The rule of law was circumvented, or frankly ignored. All took care of their personal interest, and neglected utterly the general one.

Those Romans wouldn't feel disoriented in the prese...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

Nothing infuriates the public more than the feeling that rules are bent to protect the interests of the European institution's members (or top bureaucrats) (Photo: European Commission)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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