The last two years corruption in Albania increased. 50% of those polled, declared that other persons made pressure against them to bribe, meanwhile 40% other give it. This data were made public on the last report for 2016, SELDI/CSD Corruption Monitoring System. It presents the corruption pressure and involvement.

The key findings of the 2016 SELDI/CSD Corruption Monitoring System showed that bribery remains widespread in the Balkans, but the real problem is high-level political corruption and the stalling of the EU accession process.

The report showed that Albania has the highest level of corruption, followed by Macedonia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Croatia.

The 2016 SELDI population survey shows that on the average, corruption pressure is 25.9% - hardly a percentage decline since 2014 when the regional mean was 27.1%. Corruption pressure (which represents the share of citizens in a country who report being asked for a bribe by a public officer during the past year) is the main indicator not only for administrative corruption, but for the overall corruption environment in a country;

While EU efforts in resolving the corruption challenges in the region have strengthened and improved with time, they remain sub-par in tackling the more entrenched forms of corruption such as state capture. New instruments would be needed to better grasp and target such practices;

The business sector remains detached from the anticorruption efforts in the region.

The EU and national governments, as well as international stakeholders need to put more efforts in de-monopolizing national markets to reduce the scope for state capture and corruption.