The Hyper-Resistant Corruption: How To Fight It in New Central-East European Democracies?

Описание: Romania and Bulgaria, EU member states for nearly 15 years, have gone through wide-ranging transformations and became considerably richer in the last years. Still, few would argue that the pervasiveness of corruption fundamentally changed. At the same time, they established and retained democratic norms resisting, the backsliding on par with Hungary or Poland.

The participants of the latest discussion in the Hotspots of Democracy series by the CEU Democracy Institute sought answers to these questions: How can democracy serve voters rather than elites when corruption is systemic? How can we build and maintain democratic institutions in the face of opposition from corrupt elites? Does the renewed interest in the region from the US and the focus on the corruption – security nexus present a new opportunity for anticorruption in the region? Does the increasingly pronounced impact of autocracies such as Russia and China in the region make anti-corruption harder?

Speakers:
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Democracy Studies, Hertie School; Director, European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building – ERCAS
Alexander Stoyanov, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Democracy; Director, Vitosha Research
Dimana Trankova, journalist, editor, Vagabond

Moderator:
Mihály Fazekas, Assistant Professor, CEU School of Public Policy; Scientific Director, Government Transparency Institute

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