{"id":24403,"date":"2021-11-04T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=24403"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:31:53","slug":"30-of-citizens-pay-off-civil-servants-experts-analyze-the-contributing-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/30-of-citizens-pay-off-civil-servants-experts-analyze-the-contributing-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201830% of citizens pay off civil servants\u2019, experts analyze the contributing factors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers and university professors were invited to tonight\u2019s weekly polling show \u2018Barometer\u2019 with Neritan Sejamini, whose focus was the latest survey, which showed that around 30% of Albanian citizens agree to have given bribes at least once in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

Professor at the Department of Sociology, Julian Bejko, said that corruption in Albania is deeply rooted and dates back to the time of the communist regime when due to a general lack of money, this would be arranged through an exchange of goods and favors.<\/p>\n

In addition, he said that low-level corruption in our country involves citizens paying bribes to get what already belongs to them, whereas on higher levels, individuals pay to get something that isn\u2019t theirs to have.<\/p>\n

Professor Blerta Bodinaku, gave her take saying that corruption is an \u2018indirect way\u2019 to get to what you need and it is part of a submissive mentality when faced with authority.<\/p>\n

Corruption is a characteristic and pathological symptom of Albanian society, – said Bodinaku, adding that citizens don\u2019t react because they don\u2019t believe it will have any effect, seeing that they\u2019ve lost all hope on the government, to a point where they\u2019ve become \u2018paranoid\u2019 about it.<\/p>\n

Economist, Endrit Yzeiri said that Great Britain began reforms to fight corruption since the 1800s, in order to reach today\u2019s level of absolute zero corruption at the low level.<\/p>\n

Professor, Blendi Ceka argued that the real level of corruption could be much higher, because when it comes to reporting a crime of this nature, everyone tries to hide it and rarely admits to having given a bribe in the first place. They feel ashamed and don\u2019t want to admit that they got a job or passed a class through bribes.<\/p>\n

Researcher, Redi Shehu, said that the perception of corruption is that it is a largely accepted phenomenon.<\/p>\n

According to him, this is a pyramidal issue. Small corruption can\u2019t exist at the bottom if corruption doesn\u2019t already exist at the top.<\/p>\n

In addition, MRB director, Dimitris Mavros argued that when 30% of people dare to say that they\u2019ve paid bribes, this means that the actual percentage is way higher.<\/p>\n

Jouranlist, Lutfi Dervishi said that there can never be a vaccine against corruption and that the problem lies in the fact that regular people think that nothing can ever change and that this is just the way things work.<\/p>\n

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