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Few Will Be Surprised, yet the Data on Hungarian Corruption Remain Profoundly Depressing
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Few will be surprised, yet the data on Hungarian corruption remain profoundly depressing
Hungary has topped the European Union’s corruption league table once more, according to Transparency International—this marks the fourth consecutive year.The 24.hu news site reported that Hungary and Bulgaria languish at the bottom of Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (cpi), meaning we have now been deemed the bloc’s most corrupt state for a fourth year running.Continue reading
Hungary is the most corrupt member state of the European Union, according to Transparency International's (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index, which was published on Tuesday. This year, Bulgaria has also slipped alongside Hungary, so we are tied for last. Romania is the third most corrupt in the EU, according to the TI survey. This is 84th place in the world ranking out of 182 countries. This puts us on the same level as North Macedonia and, for e…
We came in last place together with Bulgaria. The Hungarian government continues to fail to crack down on high-level corruption, and according to the NGO, this is already affecting economic performance.
Although the European Union is the least corrupt corner of the world, there are exceptions and there is plenty of room for improvement, according to Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index.
While in terms of corruption we were still in the middle of the EU at the end of the 2000s, experts say that what has developed in Hungary today is unprecedented among countries belonging to the European cultural circle – it is more similar to Latin American systems. And the situation has many consequences.
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