ANTICORRUPTION CHALLENGES IN SERBIA AND HUNGARY: IN(EFFICIENT) MONITORING OF THE ANTICORRUPTION POLICIES
Author/s: Milica Kolaković-Bojović, PhD, prof. Tihanyi Miklós, PhD
Pages: 75-90
UDK: 343.85:343.352(497.11)
343.85:343.352(439)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47152/rkkp.60.1.5
Abstract: Fight against corruption constitutes one of the main challenges to face with in the posttransitional, especially postcommunist societies, as those who, like Hungary, have already joined European Union, as for the rest of them that, like Serbia, are still in the status of candidate for the membership. An efficient anticorruption measures include, not only preventive and repressive measures in the vital areas of the state and the society, but also a strong and vibrant monitoring mechanism developed at the national level to monitor overall anticorruption policies. Furthermore, in order to ensure an objective assessment of the anticorruption policies among members states and the candidate countries, such mechanisms need to developed also at the EU level. Considering all of this, this paper aims to analyse the current state of play of the monitoring of the anticorruption policies in Serbia and Hungary, focusing on the proliferation of the monitoring mechanisms and on the gaps and overlaps in the systems. The paper also tackles the EU fail to establish a uniform and sustainable anticorruption monitoring mechanism, including the omission to apply it equally on the member states and the candidate countries.
Keywords: monitoring, evaluation, anticorruption policies, EU integration, EU standards
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