"Corruption will be biggest obstacle on road to EU"

Yes simply 100% right...

Corruption should be treated as totally unacceptable.

That includes arresting people who use connections for all kinds of things.

In particular there should be stings for senior police and politicians who make phone calls to get people 'unarrested'.

In particular there should be heavy penalties for politicians who reward cronies by giving them state jobs.

In particular there should be traps for people who use threats of force to achieve financial and political gains.

In particular there should be penalties for businesses that corrupt officials to get special treatment in issues such as food hygiene or safety.

People are fed up with corruption and fed up with attitudes that allow it. It depresses and demoralises.

The answer is for the press to expose the names of culprits and for then official sources to follow up on a few cases very HARD in order to make corruption not pay.

This man, the Professor, knows that Kosovo is independent, and the politicians in Serbia shall lose no time on that, but rather fight corruption, which is big in Serbia.

If there's no corruption then many of the people can't survive. Their measley 200 euro / month paycheck doesnt cut it and they must rely on 'gifts' from clients by going and beyond the average bureaucratic BS.

If there's no corruption then many of the people can't survive. Their measley 200 euro / month paycheck doesnt cut it and they must rely on 'gifts' from clients by going and beyond the average bureaucratic BS.
(DJ, 5 July 2011 21:16)

The opposite could be the case. In the U.S. we lived like everyone and the only time I did break the law was when I did drive fast or parked the car against the rules. There is of course a mafia-like infrastructure of courts-lawyers-prosecutors who feed on that but I guess we can live with it, such thing does not happen often.

In Hungary I break the law on the daily basis by doing nothing what would be considered immoral. The laws are such that they suck people dry. Either you submit to criminal "law" or show the ex-commies a middle finger.

That's what people do. With such environment corruption is much better than the lack of corruption!

So let's turn it the opposite way: the biggest obstacle of any post-communist country from becoming a prosperous country are the sets of laws which still resemble much of the old regime. The closer they do, the bigger is the corruption... or the immigration FROM that country. No one wants to live in such a "paradise", even if it is in E.U.

With E.U. it can be even bizarre: the laws can be tightened and made the way to exploit people even more... pretending they are "in line" with E.U. standards.

So the first step: we need laws which do not hurt us as long as we do not hurt others. It's simple. With such laws there won't be corruption the way post-socialist countries know it.

This man, the Professor, knows that Kosovo is independent, and the politicians in Serbia shall lose no time on that, but rather fight corruption, which is big in Serbia.

Yes simply 100% right...

If there's no corruption then many of the people can't survive. Their measley 200 euro / month paycheck doesnt cut it and they must rely on 'gifts' from clients by going and beyond the average bureaucratic BS.

Corruption should be treated as totally unacceptable.

That includes arresting people who use connections for all kinds of things.

In particular there should be stings for senior police and politicians who make phone calls to get people 'unarrested'.

In particular there should be heavy penalties for politicians who reward cronies by giving them state jobs.

In particular there should be traps for people who use threats of force to achieve financial and political gains.

In particular there should be penalties for businesses that corrupt officials to get special treatment in issues such as food hygiene or safety.

People are fed up with corruption and fed up with attitudes that allow it. It depresses and demoralises.

The answer is for the press to expose the names of culprits and for then official sources to follow up on a few cases very HARD in order to make corruption not pay.

If there's no corruption then many of the people can't survive. Their measley 200 euro / month paycheck doesnt cut it and they must rely on 'gifts' from clients by going and beyond the average bureaucratic BS.
(DJ, 5 July 2011 21:16)

The opposite could be the case. In the U.S. we lived like everyone and the only time I did break the law was when I did drive fast or parked the car against the rules. There is of course a mafia-like infrastructure of courts-lawyers-prosecutors who feed on that but I guess we can live with it, such thing does not happen often.

In Hungary I break the law on the daily basis by doing nothing what would be considered immoral. The laws are such that they suck people dry. Either you submit to criminal "law" or show the ex-commies a middle finger.

That's what people do. With such environment corruption is much better than the lack of corruption!

So let's turn it the opposite way: the biggest obstacle of any post-communist country from becoming a prosperous country are the sets of laws which still resemble much of the old regime. The closer they do, the bigger is the corruption... or the immigration FROM that country. No one wants to live in such a "paradise", even if it is in E.U.

With E.U. it can be even bizarre: the laws can be tightened and made the way to exploit people even more... pretending they are "in line" with E.U. standards.

So the first step: we need laws which do not hurt us as long as we do not hurt others. It's simple. With such laws there won't be corruption the way post-socialist countries know it.