Citizens’ attitudes towards corruption in the EU in 2025 – Eurobarometer 2025
Publication / July 2025
“This Eurobarometer survey is designed to explore the level of corruption perceived and experienced by EU citizens. It has been conducted ten times since its first edition in 2005. It covers the following areas: general perceptions of corruption including acceptability, its perceived extent, and the perceived changes in incidence in recent years; detailed attitudes to corruption in public institutions and business, and the effectiveness of government, the judicial system, and institutions in tackling corruption; personal experience of bribery, and the incidence of corruption in contact with institutions; corruption at the workplace; whether corruption was reported, awarness of where to report corruption and the level of trust in various authorities to deal with it.”
“Understanding the real-life decisions that drive corruption at the individual level is key to designing effective anti-corruption measures. Comparing results from bribery experiments to data from the OECD Public Integrity Indicators provides new insights into how behaviour correlates to certain anti-corruption measures.”
The Corruption Perceptions Index scores 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of publics sector corruption, according to experts and business people.