2007 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

France's history of high-level corruption scandals can be traced to poor accountability regulations for executive, legislative and judicial branches. For instance, other than a president's declaration of the assets following an election, the confidentiality of asset disclosure of government officials is guaranteed by law. Asset disclosures are not subject to any independent auditing. State-owned enterprises — another historical trouble spot — are assessed to be poorly regulated, with regulators sometimes subject to political interference. On the positive side, France has generally strong access to information and scores above the median in measures of political participation, election integrity and political financing.