The EU's fight against corruption | DW Documentary
Laura Kövesi is leading the European Union’s fight against corruption. Since becoming head of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2021, she’s launched a series of anti-fraud cases—and won.
Criminals take advantage of legal loopholes to pocket the sales tax on sportscars and other luxury products. Some fraud schemes have far more serious – sometimes deadly – sequences. In February 2023, a head-on collision between two trains in Greece claimed the lives of 57 people. EU funds allocated to fit the railway signaling network with an alert system, which would likely have prevented the tragedy, had been misappropriated. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has since charged various individuals on counts of subsidy fraud.
Under Laura Kövesi’s leadership, the EPPO has recovered millions of euros in the space of just a few years. At the same time, she says that “the trauma” and pain that the “families of the victims have cannot be solved without justice.” This film sheds light on the criminal strategies involved and how the EU’s own prosecutors and national law enforcement agencies are teaming up to fight back.
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0:16 Complete false report
UNPLUG MATRIX NEO
YOU LIVE IN A DREAM WORLD 🌎
NOBODY FIGHTING CORRUPTION
As a greek I have to say a big THANK YOU to this lady and her efforts to bring the greek mafioso government to justice. Not much has happened yet, but this mostly due to extreme corruption in greece…
Eu fights corruption as theyre being attacked by russia, completely dismissive of the threat.
Right idea, wrong time.
Llight documentary in a so profound european union corruption
YES
Time to die EU. The sooner, the better.
DW have hired millennials who are too lazy to do actual work and just press the AI button.
What Miss Laura is saying about her colleges from Romania which are asking for huge amount of monthly payment and for there request on getting with the same amount at very early pension?! Did she think is correct that in the situation of Romania and because of that Romania is going to lose money from EU!? Greece and Romania is Copy and Paste I mean same BS with criminals maybe getting in jail for 10 years, doing only 2 and remaining with the millions in there pockets! God bless her college Savonea which is giving them favors!!
Kovesi really has made an impressive journey! Kudos.
What. Was the motive, why would someone want to do this for, some sick perverse person, what have the human race come to
Whats with the cheap gangster music and useless ai reconstruction 😂😂😂 thx for the doc but come on..
Greek society is begging the EU for help against the corruption in our country, and literally, there is no one to help! It's not just the accident; there are hundreds of scandals, billions of tax money wasted and spent on politicians.
I can't believe some people say to leave the eu, without the eu we would have a dictactorship like in turkey
România rămâne cea mai coruptă țară. Mă uit cum se modifică planuri urbanistice la cererea delfinilor imobiliari, unii cu apartenența politică PNL PSD…numai in Bacău ar fi câteva exepleare suspecte sechelaru, Benea, palăr, Luchian. Toți au intrat în posesia de terenuri care aparțineau comunității" locale
The whole EU is corrupt and needs dismembered. They are making Europe into communist countries
@dw documentary. Close the comment section, only russian troll bots in the chat.
her independence to do what we whant to do… yeah even corruption is in the regulatory ranks.
KOVESI IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIAN FROM ROMANIA
Thumbnail looks like Rose from Two and A Half Man.
EU is genuinely the best example of the best governments internally, that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad problems tho. Also, it’s dithering on Russia jets, drones, and boats without any punishment and the refusal to use Russian capped assets to fund its future defense against Russia because it looks politically bad. Internally it does well, externally it does poorly. That is why I defined it doing well internally, but it is not and never has been amazing.
Please don’t use AI. It cheapens the entire production.
EU is fighting the EU commission?