TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL WATCHLIST FLAGS NINE COUNTRIES – INCLUDING AUSTRIA AND AUSTRALIA
February 9th, 2022
Transparency International has flagged nine countries, including two European Union (EU) member states – Austria and Slovenia – where it says in a February 3 blog (1) societies need to be on “particularly high alert” for corruption, highlighting declining efforts to fight graft. Australia, El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mozambique, Russia, and Senegal join the EU duo on Transparency International’s annual watchlist, a follow up to the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The watchlist blog describes Australia with its CPI rating of 73 as “one ...
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