Deterring future migrants sits oddly with chaotic maladministration that delivers arbitrary decisions on who can stay.
The release of the report by the country's public protector, an independent state office charged with uncovering maladministration, this month was a major blow.
See articleColombia's inspector-general, a functionary charged with penalising maladministration, ordered the dismissal of Bogotá's left-wing mayor, Gustavo Petro, over a botched attempt last year to change rubbish-collection contracts.
And there are many cities where an angry minority is ready to run amok: think of Budapest in 2006 or Paris in 2005.But in the Greek case a spasm of rage among youngsters and the bohemian underworld has laid bare a deeper seam of discontent: with corruption, maladministration and the sheer frustration of life at the bottom of the Athenian pile (see article).
Beyond these initial prosecutions, the ecclesia attacked Pericles himself by asking him to justify his ostensible profligacy with, and maladministration of, public money.
Where Republicans once were the party of fiscal rectitude, foreign-policy prudence, and sound government, they are now associated with deficits, recklessness, maladministration, and scandal.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and today the Conseil is universally recognized as an independent court that provides French citizens with exceptionally good protection against maladministration.
"We have not been able to agree with the ombudsman's findings of maladministration in relation to one aspect of our inquiry.
Although several antibiotics have been developed to manage these diseases with optimum efficacy, their mismanagement and maladministration, as well as microbial mutation have led to the emergence of drug-resistant strains.
