Corruption continues to plague Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with a regional average that remains one of the lowest on the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) at 35 out of 100. Across different ...
Petty bribery may be rarer in Western Europe, but influence, lobbying and regulatory capture remain powerful — and often ...
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) paints a troubling picture of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, an area struggling with dysfunctional rule of law, rising authoritarianism and systemic corruption ...
Abraham Lincoln’s observation, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time,” aptly captures a ...
On the same day American diplomats sat down with Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss matters of war and peace in Europe, their European counterparts sat down—not entirely voluntarily—for a chat with ...