In an opinion piece in the latest edition of New Europe Jana Mittermaier, Head of Transparency International Liaison Office to the EU, argues that if European leaders are serious about fighting corruption, they need to pay closer attention to the behaviour of their companies. The most recent results of the Bribe Payers Index (BPI) show that there is no room for complacency.If the events of the Arab Spring have an enduring lesson it is this: countries ignore the corrosive effects of corruption at their peril. Watching the revolutions unfold from the safety of our living rooms, it would be easy to be complacent. Bribery and graft are things that happen “over there”, with rapacious and greedy elites leading the way. Our own complicity in this state of affairs is often ignored.
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