MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE GLOBAL MIGRATION BUSINESS ! McKINSEY at.al.
22 June 2020 – “This was not the first time that the famed consultancy firm had left its mark on Europe’s handling of the crisis.
In what became a political scandal, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, according to reports, paid McKinsey more than €45 million to help clear a backlog of more than 270,000 asylum applications and to shorten the asylum process.
German media reports said the sum included 3.9 million euros for “Integrated Refugee Management”, the same phrase McKinsey pitched to the EU in September 2016.
The parallels don’t end there.
Much like the contract McKinsey clinched with the EASO in January 2017, German media reports have revealed that more than half of the sum paid to the consultancy for its work in Germany was awarded outside of normal public procurement procedures on the grounds of “urgency”. Der Spiegel reported that the firm also did hundreds of hours of pro bono work prior to clinching the contract. McKinsey denied that it worked for free in order to win future federal contracts.
Again, the details were classified as confidential.
Arne Semsrott, director of the German transparency NGO FragdenStaat, which investigated McKinsey’s work in Germany, said the lack of transparency in such cases was costing European taxpayers money and control.
Asked about German and EU efforts to keep the details of such outsourcing secret, Semsrott told BIRN: “The lack of transparency means the public spending more money on McKinsey and other consulting firms. And this lack of transparency also means that we have a lack of public control over what is actually happening.””