Washington / Morocco Board News Service - The vast majority of European countries are in the vanguard of the annual corruption ranking by Transparency International. Denmark is number two, followed by Sweden, Switzerland, Finland and the Netherlands. A little further back France is ranked at 24th in, Spain and Portugal are 32 and 35. The last of the larger European countries is Italy, which occupies the 63rd place on the last list published for the year 2009.
The three (North African) Maghreb countries are in positions 65 (Tunisia), 89 (Morocco) and 111 (Algeria), and their respective indices are 4.2 for Tunisia, 3.3 for Rabat and 2.8 for Algeria.