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BRUSSELS, Saco-Indoesia.com — Tingkat korupsi di Eropa sangat mengejutkan dan membebani ekonomi Uni Eropa sekitar 185 miliar dollar (atau Rp 2,2 triliun) per tahun.

BRUSSELS, Saco-Indoesia.com — Tingkat korupsi di Eropa sangat mengejutkan dan membebani ekonomi Uni Eropa sekitar 185 miliar dollar (atau Rp 2,2 triliun) per tahun. Demikian kata Komisi Eropa.

Laporan yang baru pertama kali ada tentang korupsi di 28 negara Uni Eropa itu menempatkan Uni Eropa, yang sering digambarkan sebagai salah satu kawasan paling bersih dari korupsi di dunia, dalam sebuah sorotan yang tak menyenangkan.

Di kalangan pebisnis ada keyakinan yang tersebar luas bahwa satu-satunya cara untuk berhasil adalah melalui koneksi politik dan hampir separuh dari perusahaan yang melakukan bisnis di Eropa mengatakan bahwa korupsi merupakan masalah bagi mereka.

Semakin banyak jumlah warga warga Uni Eropa yang berpikir bahwa korupsi kian parah, meskipun pengalaman terkait korupsi berbeda-beda di blok itu. Hampir semua perusahaan di Yunani, Spanyol, dan Italia percaya korupsi meluas. Namun, hal itu dinilai langka di Denmark, Finlandia, dan Swedia.

Inggris termasuk di antara negara yang dikritik karena gagal membersihkan dan mengatur pembiayaan partai politik, sebuah masalah yang komisi itu tentukan sebagai faktor utama dalam korupsi.

Cecilia Malmstrom, komisioner urusan dalam negeri Uni Eropa, mengatakan, korupsi mengikis kepercayaan dalam demokrasi. "Korupsi merusak kepercayaan warga terhadap lembaga-lembaga demokrasi dan rule of law. Hal itu merugikan perekonomian Eropa dan mengurangi penerimaan pajak yang sangat dibutuhkan," katanya.

"Satu hal yang sangat jelas: tidak ada zona bebas korupsi di Eropa. Komitmen politik untuk benar-benar membasmi korupsi tampaknya hilang. Ongkos karena tidak bertindak menjadi terlalu tinggi."

Dia mengatakan angka korupsi yang sesungguhnya "mungkin jauh lebih tinggi" dari 185 miliar dollar itu.

Sebagaimana diperlihatkan oleh survei komisi itu, banyak warga Uni Eropa yakin korupsi telah menjadi lebih buruk sebagai akibat dari masalah-masalah ekonomi dan keuangan di zona euro akibat krisis utang. Warga juga menduga korupsi merupakan hal lumrah dalam bisnis. Delapan dari 10 orang yakin bahwa hubungan dekat antara bisnis dan politik menyebabkan korupsi.

"Secara keseluruhan masalah Eropa tidak banyak terkait dengan soal suap kecil-kecilan," kata Carl Dolan dari Transparency International di Brussels. "Hal itu terkait dengan kelas politik dan industri. Telah terjadi kegagalan untuk mengatur konflik kepentingan para politisi dalam menangani bisnis."

Karena itu, Komisi Eropa merekomendasikan kontrol yang lebih baik dan kerja keras dalam penegakan hukum. Dalam sejumlah rekomendasi yang tidak mengikat, Inggris diminta untuk "menghentikan sumbangan kepada partai politik, membatasi pengeluaran kampanye pemilu dan memastikan monitoring yang proaktif dan penuntutan terhadap pelanggaran potensial".

Kurang dari satu persen orang Inggris, atau lima orang dari 1.115 orang yang disurvei oleh komisi itu, melaporkan bahwa mereka telah diminta untuk memberi suap. Itu merupakan "hasil terbaik di Eropa". Sebaliknya, 6 hingga 29 persen orang di Kroasia, Ceko, Lituania, Bulgaria, Romania, dan Yunani mengatakan mereka telah diharapkan untuk membayar suap.

Para pejabat dikritik karena tidak memasukkan sebuah bagian dari laporan itu yang mencantumkan korupsi di lembaga-lembaga Uni Eropa. Paul Nuttall, wakil pemimpin Partai Kemerdekaan Inggris, mengatakan, Komisi Eropa sebaiknya juga menganalisis dan mengubah budaya korusi di lingkungannya sendiri. Komisi itu jangan malah menutupi atau bungkam tentang apa yang terjadi di dalam dinding temboknya sendiri.

Sumber :Kompas.com

Editor : Maulana Lee

Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard for a driven friend named Sheryl Sandberg, pining after her for years. After they wed, Mr. Goldberg pushed her to negotiate hard for high compensation and arranged his schedule so that he could be home with their children when she was traveling for work.

Mr. Goldberg, who died unexpectedly on Friday, was a genial, 47-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built his latest company, SurveyMonkey, from a modest enterprise to one recently valued by investors at $2 billion. But he was also perhaps the signature male feminist of his era: the first major chief executive in memory to spur his wife to become as successful in business as he was, and an essential figure in “Lean In,” Ms. Sandberg’s blockbuster guide to female achievement.

Over the weekend, even strangers were shocked at his death, both because of his relatively young age and because they knew of him as the living, breathing, car-pooling center of a new philosophy of two-career marriage.

“They were very much the role models for what this next generation wants to grapple with,” said Debora L. Spar, the president of Barnard College. In a 2011 commencement speech there, Ms. Sandberg told the graduates that whom they married would be their most important career decision.

In the play “The Heidi Chronicles,” revived on Broadway this spring, a male character who is the founder of a media company says that “I don’t want to come home to an A-plus,” explaining that his ambitions require him to marry an unthreatening helpmeet. Mr. Goldberg grew up to hold the opposite view, starting with his upbringing in progressive Minneapolis circles where “there was woman power in every aspect of our lives,” Jeffrey Dachis, a childhood friend, said in an interview.

The Goldberg parents read “The Feminine Mystique” together — in fact, Mr. Goldberg’s father introduced it to his wife, according to Ms. Sandberg’s book. In 1976, Paula Goldberg helped found a nonprofit to aid children with disabilities. Her husband, Mel, a law professor who taught at night, made the family breakfast at home.

Later, when Dave Goldberg was in high school and his prom date, Jill Chessen, stayed silent in a politics class, he chastised her afterward. He said, “You need to speak up,” Ms. Chessen recalled in an interview. “They need to hear your voice.”

Years later, when Karin Gilford, an early employee at Launch Media, Mr. Goldberg’s digital music company, became a mother, he knew exactly what to do. He kept giving her challenging assignments, she recalled, but also let her work from home one day a week. After Yahoo acquired Launch, Mr. Goldberg became known for distributing roses to all the women in the office on Valentine’s Day.

Ms. Sandberg, who often describes herself as bossy-in-a-good-way, enchanted him when they became friendly in the mid-1990s. He “was smitten with her,” Ms. Chessen remembered. Ms. Sandberg was dating someone else, but Mr. Goldberg still hung around, even helping her and her then-boyfriend move, recalled Bob Roback, a friend and co-founder of Launch. When they finally married in 2004, friends remember thinking how similar the two were, and that the qualities that might have made Ms. Sandberg intimidating to some men drew Mr. Goldberg to her even more.

Over the next decade, Mr. Goldberg and Ms. Sandberg pioneered new ways of capturing information online, had a son and then a daughter, became immensely wealthy, and hashed out their who-does-what-in-this-marriage issues. Mr. Goldberg’s commute from the Bay Area to Los Angeles became a strain, so he relocated, later joking that he “lost the coin flip” of where they would live. He paid the bills, she planned the birthday parties, and both often left their offices at 5:30 so they could eat dinner with their children before resuming work afterward.

Friends in Silicon Valley say they were careful to conduct their careers separately, politely refusing when outsiders would ask one about the other’s work: Ms. Sandberg’s role building Facebook into an information and advertising powerhouse, and Mr. Goldberg at SurveyMonkey, which made polling faster and cheaper. But privately, their work was intertwined. He often began statements to his team with the phrase “Well, Sheryl said” sharing her business advice. He counseled her, too, starting with her salary negotiations with Mark Zuckerberg.

“I wanted Mark to really feel he stretched to get Sheryl, because she was worth it,” Mr. Goldberg explained in a 2013 “60 Minutes” interview, his Minnesota accent and his smile intact as he offered a rare peek of the intersection of marriage and money at the top of corporate life.

While his wife grew increasingly outspoken about women’s advancement, Mr. Goldberg quietly advised the men in the office on family and partnership matters, an associate said. Six out of 16 members of SurveyMonkey’s management team are female, an almost unheard-of ratio among Silicon Valley “unicorns,” or companies valued at over $1 billion.

When Mellody Hobson, a friend and finance executive, wrote a chapter of “Lean In” about women of color for the college edition of the book, Mr. Goldberg gave her feedback on the draft, a clue to his deep involvement. He joked with Ms. Hobson that she was too long-winded, like Ms. Sandberg, but aside from that, he said he loved the chapter, she said in an interview.

By then, Mr. Goldberg was a figure of fascination who inspired a “where can I get one of those?” reaction among many of the women who had read the best seller “Lean In.” Some lamented that Ms. Sandberg’s advice hinged too much on marrying a Dave Goldberg, who was humble enough to plan around his wife, attentive enough to worry about which shoes his young daughter would wear, and rich enough to help pay for the help that made the family’s balancing act manageable.

Now that he is gone, and Ms. Sandberg goes from being half of a celebrated partnership to perhaps the business world’s most prominent single mother, the pages of “Lean In” carry a new sting of loss.

“We are never at 50-50 at any given moment — perfect equality is hard to define or sustain — but we allow the pendulum to swing back and forth between us,” she wrote in 2013, adding that they were looking forward to raising teenagers together.

“Fortunately, I have Dave to figure it out with me,” she wrote.

Hockey is not exactly known as a city game, but played on roller skates, it once held sway as the sport of choice in many New York neighborhoods.

“City kids had no rinks, no ice, but they would do anything to play hockey,” said Edward Moffett, former director of the Long Island City Y.M.C.A. Roller Hockey League, in Queens, whose games were played in city playgrounds going back to the 1940s.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the league had more than 60 teams, he said. Players included the Mullen brothers of Hell’s Kitchen and Dan Dorion of Astoria, Queens, who would later play on ice for the National Hockey League.

One street legend from the heyday of New York roller hockey was Craig Allen, who lived in the Woodside Houses projects and became one of the city’s hardest hitters and top scorers.

“Craig was a warrior, one of the best roller hockey players in the city in the ’70s,” said Dave Garmendia, 60, a retired New York police officer who grew up playing with Mr. Allen. “His teammates loved him and his opponents feared him.”

Young Craig took up hockey on the streets of Queens in the 1960s, playing pickup games between sewer covers, wearing steel-wheeled skates clamped onto school shoes and using a roll of electrical tape as the puck.

His skill and ferocity drew attention, Mr. Garmendia said, but so did his skin color. He was black, in a sport made up almost entirely by white players.

“Roller hockey was a white kid’s game, plain and simple, but Craig broke the color barrier,” Mr. Garmendia said. “We used to say Craig did more for race relations than the N.A.A.C.P.”

Mr. Allen went on to coach and referee roller hockey in New York before moving several years ago to South Carolina. But he continued to organize an annual alumni game at Dutch Kills Playground in Long Island City, the same site that held the local championship games.

The reunion this year was on Saturday, but Mr. Allen never made it. On April 26, just before boarding the bus to New York, he died of an asthma attack at age 61.

Word of his death spread rapidly among hundreds of his old hockey colleagues who resolved to continue with the event, now renamed the Craig Allen Memorial Roller Hockey Reunion.

The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. They wore no helmets, although one player wore a fedora.

Another, Vinnie Juliano, 77, of Long Island City, wore his hearing aids, along with his 50-year-old taped-up quads, or four-wheeled skates with a leather boot. Many players here never converted to in-line skates, and neither did Mr. Allen, whose photograph appeared on a poster hanging behind the players’ bench.

“I’m seeing people walking by wondering why all these rusty, grizzly old guys are here playing hockey,” one player, Tommy Dominguez, said. “We’re here for Craig, and let me tell you, these old guys still play hard.”

Everyone seemed to have a Craig Allen story, from his earliest teams at Public School 151 to the Bryant Rangers, the Woodside Wings, the Woodside Blues and more.

Mr. Allen, who became a yellow-cab driver, was always recruiting new talent. He gained the nickname Cabby for his habit of stopping at playgrounds all over the city to scout players.

Teams were organized around neighborhoods and churches, and often sponsored by local bars. Mr. Allen, for one, played for bars, including Garry Owen’s and on the Fiddler’s Green Jokers team in Inwood, Manhattan.

Play was tough and fights were frequent.

“We were basically street gangs on skates,” said Steve Rogg, 56, a mail clerk who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and who on Saturday wore his Riedell Classic quads from 1972. “If another team caught up with you the night before a game, they tossed you a beating so you couldn’t play the next day.”

Mr. Garmendia said Mr. Allen’s skin color provoked many fights.

“When we’d go to some ignorant neighborhoods, a lot of players would use slurs,” Mr. Garmendia said, recalling a game in Ozone Park, Queens, where local fans parked motorcycles in a lineup next to the blacktop and taunted Mr. Allen. Mr. Garmendia said he checked a player into the motorcycles, “and the bikes went down like dominoes, which started a serious brawl.”

A group of fans at a game in Brooklyn once stuck a pole through the rink fence as Mr. Allen skated by and broke his jaw, Mr. Garmendia said, adding that carloads of reinforcements soon arrived to defend Mr. Allen.

And at another racially incited brawl, the police responded with six patrol cars and a helicopter.

Before play began on Saturday, the players gathered at center rink to honor Mr. Allen. Billy Barnwell, 59, of Woodside, recalled once how an all-white, all-star squad snubbed Mr. Allen by playing him third string. He scored seven goals in the first game and made first string immediately.

“He’d always hear racial stuff before the game, and I’d ask him, ‘How do you put up with that?’” Mr. Barnwell recalled. “Craig would say, ‘We’ll take care of it,’ and by the end of the game, he’d win guys over. They’d say, ‘This guy’s good.’”