Corruption
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Traian Băsescu discovers corruption in the Interior Ministry: Wherever you put your finger, corruption seeps through
There was a big commotion yesterday, when the Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs presented a review of its activity. President Traian Băsescu was fuming with rage: the Interior Ministry is a corrupt structure, wherever you put your finger, corrupt...
If Romania is suffocated by corruption, then why only 1.3% of cases reaching courts are corruption cases?
Romania’s public space has been long invaded by a phenomenon: corruption. Our vocabulary has changed to accommodate it and we invented the “corruption without corrupt people” phrase.
Who wants to fight corruption?
Whilst avoiding the eye of my dentist as he drilled further into my sorely under-maintained wisdom teeth, I managed to catch most of today''s (Thursday''s) lunchtime news. The now familiar s...
World Bank warns against corruption
The foreign investors in Romania are more determined to fight against corruption than the Romanian authorities seem to be. Tired to keep waiting for corruption to be at least reduced if not...
Quayle: Corruption drives investors away
The British Ambassador in Bucharest Quinton Quayle has joined US Ambassador Michael Guest and French Ambassador Philippe Etienne in the chorus of foreign diplomats criticising corruption and...
Wolfowitz: Get rid of corruption and spread your wings!
The statements of the US ambassador to Bucharest Michael Guest on corruption in Romania do not stand as a personal opinion but as the official point of view of the United States of America,...
Oltchim: Corruption fight hinders capital increase
The best opportunity for the Stock Exchange speculators this year, the share capital increase at Oltchim, might quickly turn into losses. The capital increase was not endorsed, and brokers a...
After Saddam, is Romanian corruption the next US target?
The Iraqi war seems to have relocated to the Balkans for the past two days, after the US Ambassador to Romania Michael Guest opened verbal fire against corruption, during the International A...
Corruption costs billions
Corruption costs Romania billions of dollars a year, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which claimed that foreign direct investment of $1.3 billion in 2001 was one-third of wh...