Moldova has outstripped Romania in the fight against corruption and is on the 35th spot in the Index of Public Integrity (IPI), being six spots ahead of Romania, IPN reports, with reference to romaniacurata.ro.
Moldova is among the 22 countries that made improvements in controlling corruption, while Romania stagnates. The IPI is topped by Denmark, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, and Estonia.
The global forecast of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) for 2024 is not encouraging. “Not many political coalitions for good governance, unified by a single program on eliminating privilege and increasing transparency, exist around the world. If the good political society does not associate with a clear purposive movement, populists will remain what they have been for a while now – the chief political winners due to discontent with corruption,” the ERCAS director says in a summary analysis titled “How will corruption evolve in 2024? Reviewing the past to forecast the future”.
Moldova excels in transparency (being among the TOP 10 globally) and in e-citizenship. “The country has adopted all the anti-corruption laws and institutions in the repertory, largely with the encouragement and the financial support of the international community.”
“The current vetting of the judiciary is necessary, but the results remain to be validated by future performance. Moldova has great transparency record having reached the global top ten and has a critical mass of e-citizens. The country seriously needs EU support to solve its structural issues subverting good governance, the grey areas related to separatist Transnistria and its Soviet legacy more generally,” says the analysis for Moldova.
The IPI assesses a society’s capacity to control corruption and ensure that public resources are spent with integrity. The IPI illustrates the most important dimensions of this equilibrium through 6 components: Administrative Transparency, Online Services, Budget Transparency, Judicial Independence, Press Freedom, and e-Citizenship.
