"Citizens consider that corruption increased, the perception on corruption after joining EU did not register a notable improvement, legislative progress were most of the times made at foreign pressure, anti graft prosecutors and the national integrity agency were saved by internal and external pressures, and internal integrity is not a priority at all", some of the conclusions of an audit on anti-corruption strategies in 2005-2010, set up by two independent experts at the recommendation of the latest EC report in July 2010 reads.

Experts praise the strategy of former Justice minister Monica Macovei for 2005 -2007 and criticize the strategy of incumbent Justice minister Catalin Predoiu, saying that it was not based on a credible evaluation of the reasons and conditions of corruption in Romania.

The independent audit, conducted by experts Drago Kos and Constantine Palicarsky touches upon the legal and institutional framework including the progresses made in the fight against corruption in 2005-2010 in Romania.

Here are the most interesting conclusions

Justice strategies for 2005 -2007 and 2008-2010 were implemented to a great extend and an important number of anti-corruption measures were taken in a short time spam.

Measures to answer each field initially identified were taken There was no notable improvement on the population’s perception on corruption after Romania joined the EU despite efforts to react to corruption in those vulnerable sectors in Romania

Legislative frameworks were taken most of the times at external pressures and resolved some problems but not all of them and sometimes even managed to create supplementary ones

Citizens consider that corruption increased despite objective data that proves the contrary.

One of the main reasons of such a situation is that a