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So welcome to our last episode of the year. It was supposed to be a festive one.

We were planning on looking back on 2020,

focusing on some of our highlights.

Now, we'll still do that at the end of today's episode,

but there was one huge story that broke this week in the EU.

And that's a corruption scandal, unlike any other

that we've seen here in a long, long time.

The news over the past days looked like a bad Netflix film. Money laundering. Payoffs.

Corruption. Kickbacks. Bags of cash. Bribes. Criminal organization. Shame on you.

It's the ugly truth of high-level corruption at the heart of the European democracy.

Make no mistake, the European Parliament, their colleagues, is under attack.

European democracy is under attack.

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