U.S. and European lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill today for the inaugural meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against Kleptocracy, a coalition whose objective is to harmonize the Western world's approach to countering corruption.
U.S. and European lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for the inaugural meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against Kleptocracy, whose objective is to harmonize the Western world's approach to countering corruption.Members of the cross-border, cross-party coalition view corruption as "the uniting force of dictators" — a systemic threat undermining trust in democracy, and siphoning trillions of dollars in stolen funds from the global financial system.
"To me, the transnational threats today have moved from an ideological communism to a crony capitalist threat," Rep. Joe Wilson told a small group of reporters after the IPAK meeting. "The bad guys hate it when we get together," said Rep. Tom Malinowski . "They're much more threatened when the United States, European Union and our democratic allies around the world speak in a single voice.""In a number of spots around the world, this combination of attacks on fundamental freedoms and democracy — combined with stealing citizens' money — is getting more severe," said Daniel Freund, a German member of the European Parliament.
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