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Corruption in Europe is "breathtaking"





The extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and it costs the EU economy about 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says. The Commission says it is the first time it has produced such a report. It also makes recommendations on how to tackle corruption. BBC (3 Jan).
  

Lunations (New or Full Moons) that bring up important planetary configurations to the sensitive meridian or horizon axis essentially tell us that matters connected with those configurations will be acutely felt in that month. Here we see the now familiar [1] Kronos-Hades-Pluto-Uranus along with Venus-Jupiter on the angles at Brussels.


Hades/Pluto: To hear of criminal activities in the world of finance.
-  Kronos: the criminal element and general deterioration is felt by the leadership.


Since Venus rules finance, its station direct on 30 Jan has also triggered the configuration so that corruption is in the news.

On the Ascendant of the chart are the stars of the Virgin and the Hydra about which Diana Rosenberg writes:

Few other skyscapes are so polarized between light and dark, clear air and suffocating darkness, with a tremendous conflict between the Virgin’s honest, upright will-to-do good and the Hydra’s dark lair of greed, sensuality and arrogant self-interest; some are tempted to dishonesty, become involved in scandals and have trouble with the law; there are both oppressions and struggles against them and transits to these stars often bring about major changes in laws, mores, governments and ways of thinking often preceded, accompanied or followed by witch hunts. [2]




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