CORRUPTION_IN_EUROPEAN_UNION_1
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Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovs’k
International Economics and Economic Theory Department
Topic of Report:
2d-year Student: Anna Zaporozhets
Scientific Supervisor: I.Diadko, PhD
Dnepropetrovsk
2014
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*The total economic damage from corruption in the EU estimates at € 120 billion a year
*Problem is common in all 28 EU countries
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*76% of EU citizens believe that corruption is widespread in their countries
*56% of Europeans believe that the last three years the level of bribery has increased
*every fourth European complained that corruption affects their daily life
If some years ago annual thefts from European funds were hundreds of millions of euro, now it amounts to billions.
Due to overpricing in government contracts, covert funding of politicians, bribing doctors, teachers and law enforcement officers of European countries, the economy of this countries lose a very big amount of money which would be enough to fill the budget of the European Union.
Romania |
Bulgaria |
Problem with corruption
Italy |
Croatia |
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Greece |
Czech |
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Republic |
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99% of citizens from Greece and Italy
95% of citizens from Spain and the Czech Republic
BELIEVE
THAT
Corruption is widespread, common and normal in their country