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Corruption and Nepotism Haunt Southern Europe
Marcello Bartolotta, a surgeon from the Sicilian town of Messina, has hit the jackpot. He has just been granted a seat in the regional parliament as a replacement for a parliamentarian from his party who recently died. The assembly will be dissolved in October ahead of regional elections. That, though, is hardly a problem for Bartoletta. After all, for the three or four remaining sessions he will attend until then, he will get some €40,000 ($49,000), in addition to expenses. That, though, is if Sicily doesn't go bankrupt first. And there is a chance it may. Bartolotta's 89 fellow lawmakers and their 400 assistants ... (full story)
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