May 4, 2011
Editor’s note: With corruption viewed as a major obstacle for the EU integration of Western Balkan states, considerable political focus is being placed on the topic. This perceptive article exposes some of the often overlooked cultural divergences of public perception and reaction to corruption, and policy flaws that have perpetuated it, at the heart of the issue.
By Geanina Turcanu in Vienna*
Parliamentary representatives of EU members old and new – Spain and Austria, Slovenia and Romania – seemed to have flocked together as (corrupt) birds of a (democratic) feather, as the now famous Sunday Times investigation disclosed in March 2011. The British newspaper’s undercover reporters, pretending to be lobbyists, alleged that Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba, Slovenian MEP Zoran Thaler, Austrian MEP Ernst Strasser and Romanian MEP Adrian Severin were prepared to take bribes in return for political favors....more...
read more: balkan analysis
http://www.balkanalysis.com/romania/2011/05/04/anti-corruption-efforts-at-the-eu-level-achievements-as-policy-goal-challenges-as-policy-tools/
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