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| A European Anti-corruption Initiative |
| (2011-09-16) |
| Last updated: 2011-09-19 16:03 EET |
European MPs on Thursday passed a resolution calling for setting basic norms when defining corruption and the applicable sanctions. At the same time, the Euro MPs are calling on member states to make a clear political commitment to put these standards into practice.
Meeting in a plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament passed an anti-corruption resolution that calls for this phenomenon to be given a clear definition, valid across all European member states, as well as for setting basic norms on legal sanctions. The resolution, introduced by a group that included the Romanian Euro MP Monica Macovei, requests Member States to make a clear political commitment to implement these norms.
The signatories of the document also called on the European Commission to make sure there is sufficient political commitment in each Member State to fight corruption and apply the package of anti-corruption measures passed in June by the European Commission. In addition, the resolution asks for clear rules to be issued regarding conflict of interest and for greater transparency in financial transactions.
The document points out that the losses caused by acts of corruption are as high as 120 billion euros, an amount close to the annual budget of the European Union itself. Here is Monica Macovei: “The observation has been made that there are differences in the level of political will between Member States when it comes to fighting corruption, and that in many member states there is little or no majority political consensus in this respect, while corruption levels are high”.
The European commissioner for home affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, emphasized the need for political will in showing zero tolerance towards corruption.
Bulgarian Euro MP Mariya Nedelcheva also pointed out that there is corruption in all European states, not only Romania and Bulgaria: “The significance of this action is that we wish to show our European partners that corruption is not restricted to Romania and Bulgaria, which are now subject to the mechanism for monitoring and verification, but that corruption is a European problem”.
In Romania, which joined the European Union in January 2007, the Justice Ministry recently published a project entitled “The National Anti-corruption Strategy for 2011-2014”.
Radu Nicolae, director and program coordinator for the Centre for Legal Resources, explains: “This National Anti-corruption Strategy is very important, because it is meant to apply in Romania what is already being discussed at the EU level. Romania’s priorities are also listed in this National Anti-corruption Strategy, which has a fairly simple vision and says that we have to apply the rules and legislation we have issued over the last ten or eleven years, both in terms of preventing and fighting corruption”.
According to official statistics, four out of five EU citizens believe corruption is a serious problem, and 88% of them believe the European Union has to do more to combat this phenomenon.
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