Lidove noviny: Czech state institutions amongst worst in Europe for corruption

Newspaper Lidove noviny reported on Thursday that, according to statistics released by the World Bank, corruption in Czech state institutions had worsened in the last ten years. The bank ranked the Czech Republic as the second worst country in Europe, when it came to government employees accepting bribes. According to the data, the Czech Republic is the only new EU member country in which the problem of corruption within state institutions has grown. The Centre for Economic Studies in Prague conducted its own research alongside that of the bank's, and found that the situation was not helped by the fact that Czechs found bribery and corruption normal aspects of everyday life.