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The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union
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June 1, 2008
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Carolyn M. Warner (2007): The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 272 pages (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-8014-4555-2; US$ 29.95
One would think that marriages and their subsequent dissolution are in today's Europe no longer a political issue as they were when marriages among royal families shaped the continent's future. Yet not only do marriages in the ranks of the powerful captivate our natural curiosity, divorces can still put a government at risk, as one anecdote in Carolyn M. Warner's "The Best System Money Can Buy" conveys:
"In the spring of 1991, when LoIk Le Floch-Prigent, CEO of the state-owned oil company Elf Aquitaine, ...