Transparency International says the average global score in its report is at its lowest level in more than a decade. A demonstrator holds up a placard reading 'Gangster Fico destroys our Slovakia' (bottom R) during a protest against the abolition of the whistleblower protection office and penal code changes in Bratislava, Slovakia, on December 15, 2025 [Joe Klamar/AFP] An anticorruption watchdog has warned in its latest report of worsening corruption in democracies around the