Oh well, how pure it must be in the land of the socialist.
Before you get too attracted to it, check out the Belgian National Debt.
If you think your debt is bad, check out theirs. Yes Belguim, capital Brussels, in the centre of the glorious socialist EU. Ho man, it would make you choke on your chocolates!
Yes, that glorious democratic institution, with its more-glorious debt, and ever deepening.
Run for the benefit of the people of course, but they seem to get ever-deeper into debt... the people, that is, definitely not the politicians. They don't even have to claim for their expenses... they just get them. What an example they set. Don't follow it, whatever you do, or your household will be bankrupt in about 3 months.
And the cabal that run it, the European Comission?... not a single one of them is elected.... not one.... they are all appointees.
Freeze this one at 26 seconds, it just about sums it up...
YouTube - The European Union (anthem)
...it's in Belguim, and it's been pissing since 1142, about the last time they balanced a budget, or any of the rest of them.
And whatever you do, don't take lectures from them on financial probity. They haven't got a clue, apart from how to sign an expense form.
Rockter.