Why is there no corruption in Finland?

Finland has always been recognized as the cleanest country in the world, and it is extremely rare for government officials to abuse power for personal gain. In 2009, Transparency International, a world-renowned anti-corruption agency, published the ranking of corruption index of all countries in the world, and Finland ranked sixth. Finland ranked first for many years in a row.

Finland has become the country with the lowest degree of corruption and the fewest corruption cases in the world, which is inseparable from its social morality and supervision mechanism.

Tie the legs of civil servants

Believe it or not, there is no bus corruption in Finland. In addition to the President, only the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of National Defense in Finland enjoy the treatment of fixed cars. And it can only be used at work. It is said that although you are the head of a country, the Finnish president often travels by bike.

In order to control buses used collectively by other civil servants, the Finnish government has designed a monitoring system. The bus is equipped with a transmitter with two buttons. One is engraved with the word official business. If it's private, and the other word is private, you have to pay taxes according to the regulations. Apply to the government office for official vehicles in advance and explain where to go. When getting on the bus, they should press the button according to the situation, so that the monitoring center can receive the signal and know exactly where the bus is going. If the official button is pressed, the car is actually driving in the wrong direction, the wireless phone on the car will ring, and the supervisor will call to ask and remind the driver ... What makes people feel is that this monitoring system has been installed in Finland for nearly 5 years, but it has not caught a violator. Later, the government simply demolished it.

Keep civil servants' mouths shut.

Finns are hospitable, people treat each other, and it is human nature to give gifts. However, for Finnish civil servants, receiving gifts and being invited to dinner is definitely a big event. If you are not careful, you may even put your future and career into it. Therefore, the first thing Finnish young people do after entering the government is to ask about the boundaries of "corruption" and find out the upper limit of accepting gifts or being invited to dinner. The general experience taught by old civil servants is that you can drink a glass of beer or eat a sandwich, but if you accidentally drink someone else's wine, there may be problems every minute.

Finnish law stipulates that civil servants cannot accept gifts with higher value, and defines the higher value in detail: adjusted according to the price index, it is generally around 24 US dollars (20 euros). The price level in Finland is relatively high. In some restaurants, you may be charged $5 for a glass of boiled water. Therefore, even if civil servants are invited to restaurants to drink boiled water, they should count how many cups they can drink. Moreover, there has been such a thing: every year on New Year's Eve, local people have the custom of giving gifts. In Rome, the Embassy of China did as the Romans do, and sent a bottle of Moutai, a tube of tea and a bottle of red wine as a token of gratitude for their help over the past year. However, it was only afterwards that the staff of the China Embassy bought the gifts with their own salaries.

If it is an official reception, from the prime minister down to the ordinary clerk, who eats together, what dishes are ordered, and how much money is spent, a list should be made in great detail on the Internet so that everyone can see it and everything can be checked clearly. Even for a public banquet, a senior executive of the Bank of China in Finland was dismissed. At that time, in the official reception, the president accidentally served a foie gras, and the media questioned it after consulting the menu online. As a result, the president had to take the blame for foie gras and resign!

Grasp the hearts of civil servants

Finland has a small population, a small life circle, few government personnel and high salary in public office, so it is not easy to find a job. Therefore, once civil servants are found to be corrupt, they will not only be dismissed immediately, but also be imprisoned immediately in serious cases. Moreover, private institutions are unwilling to recruit, and people in society look down on him. More importantly, he will never look up in front of his relatives, friends and neighbors. Corruption costs a lot.

So many Finns say that they haven't heard anything about corruption for many years. The most recent case happened six years ago. In May 2002, Finnish Evening News revealed that Su Wei, Minister of Culture? Linden approved a government subsidy of 6.5438+0.7 million euros to a golf company, in which she, her husband and several relatives all own shares. The government's judicial director immediately launched an investigation after hearing the news. Less than a week after the incident was reported, Linden was forced to step down like a whirlwind.

At present, Finnish courts accept less than 10 cases of bribery every year, and almost all of them are trivial cases. The Finnish government is so clean that people will forget corruption.