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Romania Ranked 69th In Transparency International 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index

Perception of business environment and of the international institutions on the phenomenon of corruption in Romania has worsened in 2010, reveals a report issued on Tuesday by Transparency International - Romania (TI-Romania).

According to the report, in 2010, Romania has 3.7 points (on a scale from 0-10, where 10 represents the least corrupted country), a decrease compared to 2009, with 3.8 points.

In the EU, Romania ranks 19, better than Bulgaria (3.6 points) and Greece (3.5 points). At international level, Romania ranks 69 of 178 assessed countries after Ghana, Samoa, Rwanda, Namibia and Kuwait.

Executive Director of TI Romania, Victor Alistar, said that this is for the first time since 2002 when Corruption perception index (CPI) slips to a negative trend, and this is the consequence of a stagnation of the Anti-Corruption Policy effects. He stressed that this year, Romania has abandoned reforms with a systemic impact and there is a reduction of policy makers' interest in combating corruption, which resulted in a downgrading in the CPI classification and the opening of a negative trend which is extremely dangerous.

Alistar added that Romania's situation is more dramatic than in 2009, when the corruption perception index has stalled because the rulers were not capable to react to the economic crisis. In his opinion, Romania abandoned the anti-corruption policies and the anti-corruption leverage is used for the political and image fight, with the sole exception the files instrumented at the level of the Ministry of Interior, especially by the Anti-corruption General Division.

Victor Alistar proposed the creation of a working group formed of representatives of some institutions as the National Agency for Integrity, the Court of Accounts, the Upper Council of Magistracy, the National Agency of Civil Servants, to coordinate the anti-corruption policies and in which TI-Romania could fulfill the function of Secretariat.

This year, Transparency International Romania launched the Diagnostic Analysis of the National Integrity System, and the connection between the corruption degree and indicators as life quality, sustainable development and the rule of law functioning is pointed out.

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