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L’affaire Cahuzac: a stain on Hollande’s integrity agenda or a wake-up call?

9 April 2013 in Accountability, Politics and government

After four months of denial, Jérôme Cahuzac, former Minister of Budget, finally admitted he had a Swiss bank account in his name, transferred to Singapore in 2009, containing close to €600,000. He has now been placed under investigation over alleged laundering of tax-fraud money. This scandal – which is shaking the French political class and […]

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A new era of integrity for France?

20 July 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

Only about two weeks after Nicolas Sarkozy lost his presidential immunity, police searched his home and office to look for evidence to support allegations of illicit political financing, in the context of the famous “Bettencourt case”, one of the many “affaires” to shake French political life. What matters is not the few instances of misconduct […]

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