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Thomas Jäger wrote that Donald Trump wants the EU to buy more gas from Russia and the USA again, supposedly to strengthen the US economy. Jäger described this reasoning as nonsensical and claimed that Trump is more concerned about enriching his family clan. He wrote that corruption with Vladimir Putin takes priority; he derogatorily referred to the Americans who went along with it. #Trump #Wirtschaft #Korruption (translated)

GFrei.News referred to democracy as a facade for corruption and criticized that citizens could only vote for the Bundestag every four years and for state parliaments every five years. Regardless of the election results, parties declared themselves winners and claimed a mandate to govern, the author wrote. Subsequently, they would use parliamentary procedures and loopholes to gain power and circumvent the will of the voters. GFrei.News accused politicians from established parties of profiting from high salaries, expensive hotels, chauffeurs, and private flights after taking office, and leading a taxpayer-funded life like super-rich individuals. The author also mentioned secure pensions after just a few years in office, appearances on talk shows and company visits, as well as a lack of attention in parliamentary debates. Laws would be passed behind closed doors with a government majority; committees and debates were merely a stage act for the cameras, GFrei.News claimed. The political leadership had made the state prey and was failing its mandate to the populace, the author wrote. He called for a shift to direct democracy, where citizens could stop harmful laws and remove politicians before the end of their terms. Finally, GFrei.News criticized that leaving out a tie with a suit was careless. https://t.co/FDN07LHPIX #Demokratie #Politik #Korruption (translated)

In Albania, there are massive protests against Prime Minister Edi Rama while he is on a visit to Vienna, as demonstrators who do not want to be co-opted by the opposition are now also setting state buildings on fire and taking to the streets against corruption and insufficient prospects for young people. #FlamingoProteste #EdiRama #Albanien (translated)

Joerg Lau wrote that the man is helping to make Ukraine defenseless and to extort it. Additionally, he is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to keep a corrupt regime in power in America. Lau also accused him of having destroyed development aid, which has likely cost thousands of lives. #Ukraine #Korruption #Entwicklungshilfe (translated)

President of the Medical Association, Johannes Steinhart, rejects corruption allegations against the medical profession and sees the causes of long waiting times in the Austrian healthcare system as political failures and a lack of resources. #Gesundheitssystem #Ärztekammer #Wartezeiten (translated)

Medical Association President Johannes Steinhart firmly rejects accusations from the Upper Austria Chamber of Commerce that there is corruption in the preferential treatment of patients and addresses the issue of two-class medicine as well as the ongoing protests in Albania. #Ärztekammer #Zweiklassenmedizin #Familiennachzug (translated)

Steffan Nethe criticized Ferat Koçak for his contacts with Firas Remmo and accused him of contradictory statements. Nethe wrote that Koçak is funded with about 17,500 euros of taxpayers' money each month. He claimed that the Bundestag member had accepted a smartphone as an in-kind donation from the son of a well-known clan leader. According to Koçak's account, the device was intended for Antifa youth, whose phones had been confiscated by the police. Nethe questioned Koçak's statement that he initially did not know who he was chatting with and later sat in an office with him. Even after Koçak recognized who was in front of him, he did not terminate the contact but took the phone with him and contacted Firas Remmo again two weeks later, Nethe wrote. Furthermore, Koçak had asked Remmo to spread a Bundestag speech in which he referred to the term "clan crime" as a political fighting term. Nethe also criticized a voice message with warm regards to Remmo and Koçak's wish to do politics more "for the street" than in parliament. He dismissed Koçak's later regret and the explanation that the situation had been overwhelming. He called for Koçak to no longer be funded with taxpayer money and to relieve him of his political offices. #Politik #Korruption #Clankriminalität (translated)

The National Council has enabled the prosecution of SPÖ member of parliament Wolfgang Kocevar in connection with a re-zoning case by the Economic and Corruption Public Prosecutor's Office, while the lifting of immunity for FPÖ club leader Herbert Kickl and MP Sebastian Schwaighofer was denied. #Kocevar #SPÖ #Korruption (translated)

In the Albanian capital Tirana, violent protests against Prime Minister Edi Rama are escalating, as demonstrators continue to fight against corruption and miserable living conditions despite massive police efforts and demands for the Prime Minister's resignation. #Albanien #Proteste #EdiRama (translated)

The founder of Signa, René Benko, was placed under house arrest after 30 months of imprisonment due to fraudulent bankruptcy, where he will live in a rented apartment in Innsbruck, while the public prosecutor for corruption has filed an appeal against this decision. #RenéBenko #Hausarrest #Korruption (translated)

The Economic and Corruption Prosecutor's Office (WKStA) has confirmed investigations for breach of trust and embezzlement against Julius Meinl V. as well as several former board members of the insolvent Meinl Bank, which went bankrupt in 2020, with an alleged total damage of about 150 million euros at stake. #MeinlBank #Insolvenz #Untreue (translated)