Posted on 02/04/2014 3:10:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
The European Commission said yesterday (3 February) that its first anti-corruption handbook for the 28 member states showed that there were “no corruption-free zones”, but officials declined to name and shame individual countries.
The Commission published yesterday (3 February) its much awaited 40-page anti-corruption report covering the overall situation in the 28-country bloc, coupled with individual chapters on each country, of approximately a dozen pages each. The package is supplemented by a 230-page special Eurobarometer survey on corruption.
The EU executive said that its rather modest ambition was to launch a debate on the corruption and identify ways in which the EU could help fight the scourge.
Corruption is estimated to cost the EU economy €120 billion per year. That amounts to about 1% of EU GDP and represents only a little less than the annual budget of the European Union. …
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