“In 2012, Transparency International ranked Greece 94th in the list with the countries with corruption,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, speaking at the event “Technology and Transparency” organized by the National Corruption Authority on the occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day.
A series of important efforts brought Greece in the 54th position in 2015 and afterward there was a 13 drop to the 67th position in 2018. A performance shameful for a European state and a sad bequest of a government that consistently spoke of moral advantage. This condition constitutes a national threat and harms the country’s credibility. It discourages the investments and leads to the loss of valuable resources and destroys the confidence of the citizens in the state and in the politics in total, Mitsotakis underlined.
“We start with the restoration of the politics as well as of the civil servants’ prestige in any aspect of the public life by streamlining the prevention mechanism and tackling corruption and by equipping them with the appropriate methods and mostly the most modern means” Mitsotakis stressed.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday welcomed the creation of the National Transparency Authority as a groundbreaking factor for eliminating corruption in Greek public life.
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