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When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO

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Summary: Abandonment of lawfulness seems to be something that the EPO and Balkan states have in common

THE EPO's despotic leadership didn't start in 2010. But it certainly got a whole lot worse under Benoît Battistelli. Currently, after neutering a lot of the media with various bribes and threats, the public is meant to think that António Campinos exercises 'soft power' and is in fact a master negotiator.



That's a lie!

"The notion of lawfulness is mostly theatrics."In the past year alone we've seen Campinos intervening in courts' affairs to rig their outcomes (e.g. decisions on 'ViCo' and European software patents), so there's merely an illusion of separation of powers, access to justice and so on.

It's all an illusion. Just like in Balkan states. The notion of lawfulness is mostly theatrics. When people in charge of 'justice' issue cleverly-worded threats that sound like death threats directed towards children you start to wonder if the department in charge of 'justice 'is a mental asylum or should instead be designated a prison ward, detaining its very own staff.

The video at the top is a bunch of personal views regarding the last part, which was published a few minutes earlier. There are 3 more parts to come. On this particular topic alone...

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