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Greece Warned to Improve Anti-Corruption Drive


Greece is falling behind on efforts to stamp out corruption.
This was the conclusion of two reports issued Thursday by the Council of Europe (CoE)’s anti-corruption watchdog, GRECO.
One report on corruption prevention in parliament and the judiciary said only six out of 19 recommendations had been met.
Although it praised Greece for introducing a code of conduct for parliamentarians, it also called for more “increased transparency and a broadened scope for declaration of [lawmakers’] assets”.
A separate CoE report also claimed Greece had gone backward regarding anonymous donations to its political parties.
It claimed that after two years of banning anonymous donations completely, Greece had “reintroduced” a level of secrecy. “Concurrently, so-called fund-raising seems to allow for anonymous donations,” the body added.
The GRECO report arrives as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras re-shuffled his cabinet after two ministers quit over financial impropriety.
A major investigation into a case of purported bribe taking connected with the Novartis pharmaceutical giant is also ongoing.

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