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Clearly you don't live in the region. Since I've lived in both Central Europe and the UK and US, I can guarantee you that corruption blossoms (at least as judge
by xixixao 12y ago
Clearly you don't live in the region. Since I've lived in both Central Europe and the UK and US, I can guarantee you that corruption blossoms (at least as judged by the public) everywhere the same.
P.S.: Slovakia is in Central, not Eastern Europe, and things get generally worse as you go East.
- osense 12y agoIt's a bit funny you should say that, because right now there is this huge case about the government tunneling a private corporation which was supposed to build highways in the country all around the news in Slovakia :)
- zurn 12y agoTransparency International publishes this thing so we don't need to go by gut feelings re. corruption as judged by the public: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results Spoiler: Big differences across Europe
- yellowapple 12y agoI love how Greenland's, like, some sort of anti-corruption candle on that map. Also, I'm surprised that New Zealand, of all places, ranks higher than all but Denmark in cleanliness (and not surprised that North Korea and Somalia are tied in corruption).
- wassyape 12y agoI want to note that this is corruption as judged by business people. So it may not be much better,