Malta loses eight places to fall to record low on corruption index

Malta has lost eight places on Transparency International's annual corruption index, dropping to 54^th place which is the worst ever result on this classification.

The country has gradually fallen 29 places since 2004, the first year in which Malta was included on the index.

Malta's score has decreased by six points over the last three years, from 60 over 100 in 2015 to 54 over 100 in 2008.

Denmark, Finland and Sweden were the best performers in Europe with 88, 85 and 85 respectively.

Seven EU countries were worse placed than Malta – Italy, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria.

from The Malta Independent http://bit.ly/2MECDds
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