AND so, at last, to Brussels, a city which has kindly offered up its name as a shorthand term for everything that is least popular about the European Union: waste, small-scale corruption, pettifogging bureaucracy, arrogant officialdom, impenetrable institutions.
For many, the small-scale corruption and nepotism they had seen in local politics had bolstered their lack of faith in government and an accompanying desire for less of it on every level.
It involved hijacking an Armenian money train, innumerable smaller corruptions, a cop-killing by Vic in the very first episode, and the whole thing has become knotted beyond the unpicking by mere mortals.
Armenia is also too small for corruption and crime to remain hidden.
But you never know," she says.Ahead of the Czech Republic's upcoming presidential election, she fears small mindedness, corruption and isolationism, be it from the EU or globalisation.
But legal sanction is a better remedy for small-town corruption than direct democracy.
On the left is Mr Veltroni's Democratic Party (PD), yoked to a small anti-corruption party.
But the agency's culture was shaped by forces much bigger than small-time corruption.
In the annals of small-bore corruption, there are few things more commonplace than a police officer's making a ticket disappear for a friend or relative.
The story of a minor official whom local power-brokers unexpectedly promote to chief prosecutor, this merciless study of small-town corruption rings true to anyone who has regular dealings with the Hungarian state.In Rokonok István Kopjáss, a hapless naïf, suddenly finds himself enmeshed in hair-raising stories of local corruption.
