Cash has always been a trusted medium of exchange. Apart from convenience of payment, to what extent is going cashless useful for the common man ? It's the same ๐ถ for all the countries !
The municipality is the local self government. At least, this portion of the government we can easily track because we know the people forming the municipalities directly. What l showed was how the various government institutions spend the taxpayer's ๐ฐ.
Consider this : is EU at war with Russia ?? Ukraine is not a part of the EU.
I don't know which country you are from, but there was a prime minister called Berlusconi in Italy. He was a tycoon, much like Trump. If you look at it deeply, all the people in the governments are basically plutocrats. They're there to serve the interests of the big corporates. In India too, Modi takes orders from outsiders like Trump, from Israel, from Bill Gates and from tycoons like the Adanis and the Ambanis.