5mo ago

Corruption is getting worse in the EU, says Transparency International

www.euronews.com

Hungary being the worst of all

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5mo ago

Corruption is getting worse across the EU, Transparency International index warns

www.euronews.com /my-europe/2025/02/11/corruption-is-getting-worse-across-the-eu-transparency-international-index-warns

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Surprise, surprise... more right-wing governments means more corruption. This has always been a solid correlation in European politics.
Perceived corruption is getting worse. This is not necessarily actual corrupt. Media narratives have more influence on this than actual reality.
In fact, when a country's justice system starts cleaning up corruption it will increase the perceived corruption because suddenly there's a bunch of corruption that gets exposed.
- I can reassure you that in Hungary not just the perception increased. Also it's a bit strange here, it's a captured state, so on paper no corruption happens, everything is legal, they can just create a new laws overnight, Orbán rules by decree since 2016.
  Hungary First! Again! We won! Usually we win at this and the suicide statistics, nowadays our inflation is also world class again as after ww2.
  
  I'm not saying the index is useless, just pointing out what it measures.
  I think of it as smoke detector, hopefully it will ring if there's a fire but it will also ring if corrupt people are being roasted past well done.
- What if the Media is corrupt and highly influenced by foreign agencies?
- Because that's what the Corruption Perceptions Index tries to measure. It's literally in the name.
Meanwhile in USA: Elon and Trump are robbing the citizens and no one cares.
- People seem to care an awful lot. The media seems not to.
  
  The media are owned by people who profit from this. Similar tendencies can be found everywhere.
Hungary, the Spiders Georg of European corruption
Meanwhile, me a Dane: How hard can it be? Just take a time machine and travel back to the 17th century and fix your society.

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