Corruption in Luxembourg
Levels of corruption in Luxembourg are generally said to be very low, and there is a strong legal framework for combating corruption[1] in the country. Surveys however, indicate that a majority of the population believes political parties are either "corrupt" or "extremely corrupt."
Political corruption does surface. According to Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer 2013, 53% of the surveyed households considered political parties "corrupt" or "extremely corrupt", and 33% had the same opinion about Parliament. Moreover, a significant number of the surveyed households considered that the government's fight against corruption was "ineffective" and that corruption had increased over the previous two years.[2] On Transparency International's 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index, Luxembourg scored 78 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Luxembourg ranked 8th among the 182 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.[3] For comparison with regional scores, the best score among Western European and European Union countries[Note 1] was 89, the average score was 64 and the worst score was 40.[5] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 89 (ranked 1), the average score was 42, and the worst score was 9 (ranked 181, in a two-way tie).[6]
Several other sources indicate that the overlap between business and politics in Luxembourg gives opportunities for corruption, and there is no code of conduct focusing on corruption, conflict of interest and favouritism for procurement officials.[7][8]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Evaluation Report- Luxembourg 2013" (PDF). GRECO & the European Commission. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "Global Corruption Barometer 2013". Transparency International. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "The ABCs of the CPI: How the Corruption Perceptions Index is calculated". Transparency.org. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
- ↑ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2025: Global scores". Transparency.org. 10 February 2026. CPI2025. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
- ↑ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2025: Europe must step up leadership in the fight against corruption". Transparency.org. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ↑ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2025: Luxembourg". Transparency.org. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ "Identifying and Reducing Corruption in Public Procurement in the EU" (PDF). PWC & ECORYS. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "Snapshot of the Luxembourg Country Profile". Business Anti-Corruption Portal. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
External links
[edit]- Luxembourg Corruption Profile from the Business Anti-Corruption Portal
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