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Look the other way

“Greece ‘Cheated’, Germany, France looked the other way” (GoldAlert.come, May 27, 2011) is another example. This one is about Greek’s financial crisis, suggesting that Germany and France once ignored the problem.

Another one: “While properties crumbled, bankers looked the other way” (HamptonRoads.com, December 24, 2007). That’s pretty straightforward – it’s why we have since had a global economic downturn.

Yet another: “WikiLeaks: US looked the other way as Iraqis killed each other.” (IndianExpress.com, October 23, 2010). Well, WikiLeaks, it’s probably true.

Alright?

Alright. Here are fuller examples:

1. In Greece, tax officials fly helicopters over residential areas to spot swimming pools of the alleged poor. In Italy, inspectors raid elite ski resorts to catch the down-and-out in their Ferraris. In Spain, taxmen snoop about homes rented to sun-seeking vacationers — then visit the owners who neglected to report the income.

Evading taxes is almost a national pastime in European nations such as Greece, Spain and Italy, and for years their governments largely looked the other way.

On Monday, the 27 nations of the EU will meet in Brussels to focus on how to boost growth and jobs. But as the southern European nations struggle with a debt crisis that threatens to overwhelm the European Union, their recently installed governments feel they must become more like their more solvent northern neighbors, where the crime of tax evasion is taken seriously.