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# Wouldn't You Expect More from a Country . . .
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1881/
- Published: 2005-08-02T11:34:44.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-02T11:34:44.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Politics, #wpChunk

. . . that's so sexually progressive?

> Car manufacturers BMW, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen; the country's fourth-largest financial institution, Commerzbank; Europe's largest chip-producer, Infineon - five of Germany's leading firms, all members of its Dax-30 blue-chip index, have become embroiled in corruption scandals in recent months.

> The revelations of kickbacks, money-laundering and paid-for sex have shocked a country that is already trying - and failing - to come to terms with its fall from grace as Europe's model economy and is mired in anxious depression. Not so much banana republic as backhander republic.

[Link](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1540778,00.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).