Bulgaria, Romania and Greece were at the bottom of the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2009 for the European Union.
Denmark leads the index, followed by Sweden and Finland. Estonia and Slovenia are the least corrupt from the East European Member States.
And does this reflect in the continuing failure of the auditors to support the EU accounts? (After all, it is the individual countries that pay out the grants, etc that the EU allocates).
Actually 2008 marked an improvement of the EU budget discipline: http://eulaw.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/positive-report-on-the-implementation-of-the-2008-eu-budget/