Politicians and their networks are controlling their nations’ affairs to profit from corruption with impunity.
Ordinary citizens pay for state capture through loss of livelihood, poor public services, limited opportunities and by losing trust in democracy as they see government institutions serve private interests.
This is happening at all levels of government – from local authorities to the executive – in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. Here, chains of loyalty and mutual benefits are leading officials to abuse their office and tighten the grip of a few networks on these countries.
A Transparency International report on the Western Balkans and Turkey from December 2020 reveals the causes of this state capture, as well as two enabling factors that allow it to happen: undue influence on the judiciary and on law-making.
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