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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9324
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha/corruptin

European governments accused by citizens of not doing enough to fight corruption

Brussels, 08/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - European governments just put up with corruption rather than try to combat it. This is what comes out of the Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International (TI) on 7 December. 42% of Europeans think the action taken by their governments against all kinds of corruption is ineffective. Worse, 28% think that no effort is made to combat corruption, and indeed that public authorities encourage it. Only 22% feel that government action is...

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