In connection with the corruption case known as Katargate, Géza Jeszenszky was able to say that we should not forget about Hungarian corruption. According to him, it is no coincidence that when the European Commission formulated its objections to Hungarian rule of law problems, domestic corruption came first. But why is Móricka from Viccbéli the first to think about the statement of the former foreign minister and ambassador, who remembers everything

First of all, let us state that history does not repeat itself, despite appearances. If we still feel this way sometimes, it can be done by human nature, which is truly eternal. The feelings about which the best writers from ancient times to the present day write, self-sacrifice, meanness, jealousy, love, sensitivity to public life, suicide, fear, terror, are believed to have existed from the first moment when man lived in society . Just as the propensity for corruption existed and exists universally. Wherever man appears with his nature, corruption also appears, regardless of party or country. If nothing else, that's certainly the conclusion we can draw from the newspaper stories that have informed us about Qatargate over the past few weeks.

Returning to Géza Jeszenszky's opinion: the Index asked not only him , but also former foreign minister and former EU commissioner Péter Balázs, what he thought about the corruption in Brussels, which seems to be increasingly widespread, but he answered rather tersely. According to the former foreign minister, Brussels is handling the case properly, similarly to how it was done in 1999, when the French commissioner was involved in a corruption scandal.

Although Péter Balázs did not explain the essence of the Edith Cresson case, it is worth recalling because he dragged the entire European Commission with him with his downfall, as the entire board resigned together with the president, Jacques Santer.

After 1999, the next corruption case broke out in 2012. The President of the European Commission at the time, Manuel Barroso, himself called on Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection John Dalli to resign.

From all this, we can rightly think that "the operation was successful, the patient died". Or not? If a case is handled properly, the one-time citizen believes that the problem has been solved once and for all. If, on the other hand, corruption rears its head again and again, i.e. it becomes repetitive and systemic, then let's just declare that the problem has not been solved once and for all, i.e. it has not been handled properly .

Árpád Szakács in his article The Birth of the Dolmánybaloldal also lashes out at contemporary Hungarian corruption, recalling Zsigmond Móricz's short story Lófió, which presents the classic world of my uncle,

"the Hungarian reality that has deteriorated to the core, when the truth is always overridden by something, kinship, coma, or the fact that someone is an acquaintance of an acquaintance."

And now let's describe Szákács' quoted sentence like this: it presents the classical Western world, the Brussels reality that is corrupted to the core, when the truth is always overridden by something, material interest, kinship, or the fact that someone is an acquaintance of an acquaintance."

What is it like? Stand one's ground?

If Joe Biden installed his son on the board of directors of Burisma, the largest gas industry trust of the coup-destroyed Ukraine, as vice president, if American companies buy up the world's best and largest agricultural land, the famous chernozem, then he will stand his ground. If you think of Eva Kaili's life partner and her father running away with the suitcase of money, then it stands in its place.

And if Eva Kaili does not end up in prison for many years, it can be assumed that everything will remain the same, at least the deeply respected Brussels bureaucrats, who see themselves as untouchable, will be more careful.

If there is no consequence - and the world will forgive us for being a little skeptical about the promise of self-cleansing - then corruption will stay with us; both at home and in Brussels.

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