Opposition protesters have rallied in Tirana, accusing the government of links to organized crime. Prime Minister Rama hit back, telling opponents they were creating a false crisis to sabotage EU accession talks. Shouting slogans and waving banners that read “Rama Leave,” thousands of opponents of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s socialist government took to the […]

The Department of Political Science, University of Perugia, in collaboration with the Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI), European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and Italian National Anticorruption Authority (ANAC) implemented an international Winter School on “Preventing Corruption through Administrative Measures” which took place in Rome and Città di Castello, Italy, from 22 January to 2 February, 2018. The Winter School was […]

People return to the streets in the graft-plagued EU member to oppose laws that would weaken judicial independence. Tens of thousands of Romanians marched through heavy snow in Bucharest on Saturday in protest against proposed laws that critics say will make it harder to prosecute crime and high-level corruption. An estimated 50,000 people marched towards parliament, […]

Sarajevo public companies are often managed by political party members whose background and work experience don’t match at all with the companies’ business. Political parties control operation of public companies by appointing members into company management. (Photo: CIN)   By The Center for Investigative Reporting In the summer of 2017, temperatures in the capital of […]

The government-run Anti-Corruption Council warns about dozens of thousands of hectares of state-owned land being given away to private entities without compensation, i.e. just based on a note issued by the Privatization Agency which says that the land buyer has settled its obligations stemming from a contract. “Even if the buyer did fulfill its obligations, […]

Bulgaria’s president has blocked anti-corruption legislation passed by the parliament, saying it failed to provide effective measures to investigate corruption networks. This comes as Bulgaria takes over the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time since joining the bloc in 2007. The Bulgarian president, Rumen Radev, vetoed the […]

Red-faced over reports about how much it cost, the Serbian capital’s mayor has pledged to cancel the city’s contract for its super-costly plastic Christmas tree – although the tree is already up. Belgrade’s embarrassed mayor, Sinisa Mali, on Thursday pledged to cancel the city’s deal for an 18-metre-high plastic Christmas treet, after a Serbian website […]

Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, in cooperation with the Public Internal Financial Control Department (PIFCD) of Ministry of Finance of Republic of Macedonia, supported by the Austrian Development Agency, organized a Training on Corruption Risk Assessment in Public Authorities of Republic of Macedonia, which was held on 21 – 22 December 2017, in Skopje, Macedonia. The Training was organized […]

Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI), took part in a conference on “Criminal Liability of Police Officers in the Western Balkans”, which was organized by the regional POINTPULSE network of civil society and which took place on 21 December 2017, in Belgrade, Serbia. The conference “Criminal Liability of Police Officers in the Western Balkans” is a joint initiative of […]

European police say Slovenian and Croatian security have busted an international crime syndicate involved in sports corruption, illegal betting and trying to fix soccer matches in several countries including Serbia, Macedonia and the Czech Republic. Europol said Tuesday that 13 house searches and 15 vehicles searches in different locations in Slovenia and Croatia have been […]