Stability and corruption in south-eastern Europe
Stability and corruption in south-eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: This article briefly examines the main types of corruption in the region, the required measures to combat it and the circumstances that must be satisfied prior to these measures being able to be fully and adequately implemented. Its main contention is that stability must be introduced as an environment that makes possible the elimination of corruption, rather than it being expected as an outcome of the elimination of corruption. Only in stable social and economic circumstances is it possible to introduce transparent mechanisms of corruption monitoring, assessment and control, and such circumstances will be introduced only where the state and society are sufficiently strengthened adequately to take on and fulfil their roles and duties towards their citizens. To do this, they need decisive guidance and financial, political, logistic and expert support from the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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