Serbia low on new TI ranking of perceived corruption

"Serbia brings up the rear among the former Yugoslav republics - 80th on the overall list, it is five slots behind Montenegro, eight behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 behind Macedonia and 18 behind Croatia."

... and, not to forget, 43(!!) behind Slovenia. This EU country in on rank #37. In case you include the former 'autonomous provinces', Kosovo is - who expected anything else? - the worst, with a fantastic rank of #105, 25 behind Serbia.

But there's good news: Kosovo is not the most corrupt country in Europe any more, now it's... surprise, surprise, Albania, being on #113. Though I wonder if it is because the rating for Kosovo has really improved or the rating for Albania only got worse.

Here are the worldwide results: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

What's most striking about the Balkan scores (not rankings) is how similar they are, with there being a noticeable decline moving from north to south (Slovenia putting the rest of the West Balkans to shame, as Scandinavia does to the rest of the world). Or maybe it's closeness to EU membership that the scores track? (Except for BiH, whose score I'd probably want to recheck.)

With all the undisclosed money that was poured into the last presidential election in the U.S. our score should be truly dismal next year. We need some new Supreme Court Justices to overturn the ruling that made it all technically legal.

So: Serbia 39, Kosovo 34, Albania 33, Greece 36: there must be something in the water.

Here are the worldwide results: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/

What's most striking about the Balkan scores (not rankings) is how similar they are, with there being a noticeable decline moving from north to south (Slovenia putting the rest of the West Balkans to shame, as Scandinavia does to the rest of the world). Or maybe it's closeness to EU membership that the scores track? (Except for BiH, whose score I'd probably want to recheck.)

With all the undisclosed money that was poured into the last presidential election in the U.S. our score should be truly dismal next year. We need some new Supreme Court Justices to overturn the ruling that made it all technically legal.

So: Serbia 39, Kosovo 34, Albania 33, Greece 36: there must be something in the water.

"Serbia brings up the rear among the former Yugoslav republics - 80th on the overall list, it is five slots behind Montenegro, eight behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 behind Macedonia and 18 behind Croatia."

... and, not to forget, 43(!!) behind Slovenia. This EU country in on rank #37. In case you include the former 'autonomous provinces', Kosovo is - who expected anything else? - the worst, with a fantastic rank of #105, 25 behind Serbia.

But there's good news: Kosovo is not the most corrupt country in Europe any more, now it's... surprise, surprise, Albania, being on #113. Though I wonder if it is because the rating for Kosovo has really improved or the rating for Albania only got worse.