Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Romanians can buy grades for the final exams, drivers' licenses and construction authorizations

The frauds during the high school final exams this year indicate just how widely spread corruption is in Romania, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reads in its online edition on Thursday. The German daily presents the case of a high school principle where the students paid bribes, in order to obtain good grades.

Grades are not the only thing one can buy in Romania, the prestigious paper notes. Driver’s licenses, generous construction authorizations, tax exemptions or getting a surgical intervention faster than the usual time required are just a few other things for which Romanians pay bribes.

The article also discusses the political pressures put on the National Anti-Graft Prosecution Office (DNA), saying that the attitude towards this institution is revealing for the general anti-graft campaign.