{"id":855,"date":"2023-10-06T08:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2023-10-06T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:48:55","slug":"fmr-eu-commission-prez-ukraine-corrupt-at-all-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/fmr-eu-commission-prez-ukraine-corrupt-at-all-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr EU Commission Prez: &#8220;Ukraine Corrupt at All Levels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A significant statement by a European Leader in a position to know the truth about Ukraine. Paul Juncker, former European Commission President, says Ukraine is &#8220;corrupt at all levels of society.&#8221; That, of course, should give pause to anyone wanting to continue sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine. . . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has slammed the possibility of Ukraine joining the EU, lambasting the country as massively \u201ccorrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnyone who has had anything to do with Ukraine knows that this is a country that is corrupt at all levels of society. Despite its efforts, it is not ready for accession; it needs massive internal reform processes,\u201d Juncker said during an interview with German outlet\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburger-allgemeine.de\/politik\/interview-wie-kommt-europa-aus-der-krise-herr-juncker-id68072696.html\" target=\"_blank\">Augsburger Allgemeine<\/a>\u00a0published Thursday. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jean-claude-juncker-ukraine-corruption-eu-accession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">POLITICO<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant statement by a European Leader in a position to know the truth about Ukraine. Paul Juncker, former European Commission President, says Ukraine is &#8220;corrupt at all levels of society.&#8221; That, of course, should give pause to anyone wanting to continue sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine. . . . . Former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,125,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-juncker","category-ukraine","category-ukraine-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}