Corruption is a form of abuse of power in order to gain personal and private earnings, which can often take different forms, posing a real danger to national and European communities/population. Corruption can sometimes be a facilitator for terrorism, crime, tax evasion, money laundering, etc., which affects the economic growth by establishing a business uncertainty. This phenomenon is widespread at European and national level, and the mode of manifestation and its nature may differ from state to state. This generates a domino effect at European Union level, through inefficient functioning of the market and lower investments. The aim of this article is to present the evolution of corruption in the European Union, as well as to analyze the connection of the political stability and corruption using both parametric (Pearson correlation coefficient) and nonparametric (Kendall correlation coefficient) methods. Also, in this article I highlighted the fight against corruption form the European Authorities and Institutions, as well as some example of corruption in countries where the Transparency Corruption index reveals a low corruption. The education in the sense of building an entire society based on integrity, correlated with the anti-corruption legislation and the establishment of new institutions that can investigate and punish illegal deviations, will provide the premises for combating this phenomenon.
