Corruption is getting worse in the EU, says Transparency International
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Hungary being the worst of all
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Surprise, surprise... more right-wing governments means more corruption. This has always been a solid correlation in European politics.
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Perceived corruption is getting worse. This is not necessarily actual corrupt. Media narratives have more influence on this than actual reality.
In fact, when a country's justice system starts cleaning up corruption it will increase the perceived corruption because suddenly there's a bunch of corruption that gets exposed.
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What makes you think this is or could be only about perceived corruption?
From the linked article:
TI's index measures the perception of public sector corruption according to 13 data sources, from the World Bank to private risk and consulting firms, scoring countries and territories on a scale from a "highly corrupt" 0 to a "very clean" 100.
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What if the Media is corrupt and highly influenced by foreign agencies?
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Because that's what the Corruption Perceptions Index tries to measure. It's literally in the name.
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I can reassure you that in Hungary not just the perception increased. Also it's a bit strange here, it's a captured state, so on paper no corruption happens, everything is legal, they can just create a new laws overnight, Orbán rules by decree since 2016.
Hungary First! Again! We won! Usually we win at this and the suicide statistics, nowadays our inflation is also world class again as after ww2.
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Hungary, the Spiders Georg of European corruption
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Meanwhile in USA: Elon and Trump are robbing the citizens and no one cares.
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People seem to care an awful lot. The media seems not to.
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I'm not saying the index is useless, just pointing out what it measures.
I think of it as smoke detector, hopefully it will ring if there's a fire but it will also ring if corrupt people are being roasted past well done.
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The media are owned by people who profit from this. Similar tendencies can be found everywhere.
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Meanwhile, me a Dane: How hard can it be? Just take a time machine and travel back to the 17th century and fix your society.
