Berlin: corruption index: Europe comparatively clean.

PositionKIOSQUE: Global highlights and local sidelights culled from the media - Berlin, Germany - Brief article

Transparency International, an independent non-governmental organization, issues annual rankings of countries by their degree of honesty as places to do business. Put another way, the list measures local corruption, at least as seen by people doing business in each country. The rankings are based not on any actual evidence but rather on the views and opinions of businessmen and officials about the practices they believe prevail in the countries where they work. European countries are consistently grouped at or near the top of the list as "least corrupt." In 2007, the countries that showed up best were Finland and Denmark, which were tied at the top of the 179 countries that...

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