UK AMONG EUROPEAN NATIONS TO DROP IN CORRUPTION INDEX
January 1st, 2019
BRITAIN was among a handful of European nations that fell down in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index, dropping out of the top-10 of the most honest jurisdictions in the 2018 rankings. The UK is now joint 11th with Germany, dropping two points to 80 on the scale where 100 is seen as cleanest and 0 highly corrupt among experts and business people surveyed. As for other European Union (EU) member states, Bulgaria (42), Croatia (48), Greece (45), Hungary (46) and Romania (47) all scored badly in the 2018 index, which shows the majority ...
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