GREECE AND ITALY FARE POORLY IN LATEST TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL REPORT
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CORRUPTION in Greece is now considered as bad as in Romania and Bulgaria - European Union (EU) member states investigated by the European Commission over graft. Greece's slide from 57th in last year's Transparency International (TI) corruption perception index to 71st in this year's report will concern its new left-wing PASOK government. Silvio Berlusconi's Italy also fared poorly this year, listed 63rd (behind Cuba, Turkey and Namibia: last year Italy was 55th.
TI chair Huguette Labelle said given this year's vast 'stimulus' handouts, "it ...
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