Barroso’s Goldman Sachs chairmanship sparks campaign for greater transparency among MEPs and EU institutions. A PETITION calling for action on the lobbying activities of EU officials has gained 55,000 signatures in a bid to pressure for transparency on a “revolving door” culture in the European Union. The action, created by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and […]

Scores of people took to the streets of Kosovo’s capital on Tuesday to protest corruption after wiretaps emerged showing alleged abuse of power by ruling party officials. Organized under the social media hashtag #Prostestoj (I Protest), Kosovars have been rallying on the streets of Pristina since early August after news site Insajderi published a series […]

Two top border police officials have resigned after а suspected people-smuggler won a public tender to transport migrants to accommodation centres inside the country. The director of the police border guards, Antonio Angelov, and his deputy Yotko Andreev stepped down on Monday after Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov demanded their resignations.   Borissov’s call followed […]

In a bid to fight nepotism and politically influenced employment, Kosovo will hire a private company to manage the recruitment process of senior positions in its state institutions. The British ambassador in Pristina, Ruairí O’Connell, Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, and Kosovo’s Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday to launch […]

Romania’s boy-faced health minister Vlad Voiculescu is used to quickly turning ideas into action. Before his appointment, he smuggled cancer drugs into his home country from Austria for patients who couldn’t otherwise get a hold of them. He left work to help transport victims of a nightclub fire out of the country when local hospitals became […]

Greece intends to sign agreements with Bulgaria and Cyprus which will allow Athens to look into suspected tax evasion by Greek-owned companies registered in the two countries, Greek newspaper Kathimerini has reported.     The closer inspection of Greek-owned companies registered in Bulgaria and Cyprus will aim to find out whether they are active in […]

The National Anti-corruption Directorate’s  (DNA) prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to block bankruptcy procedure at Carpatica Asig in the next two months, to be penalty liable in the file in which it is accused of bribery. The measure was required after the Financial Supervision Authority (ASF) started the bankruptcy procedure at Carpatica Asig. In the […]

More privatization, higher public-sector salaries, increased investment, further EU integration and regional stability are the key objectives Aleksandar Vucic outlined in a long speech to Serbia’s parliament.   Serbia’s new-old Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in a marathon six-hour presentation of the government’s program, written on 260 pages, on Tuesday, that his key goals will […]

Special Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened another in a series of preliminary investigations against former official of DPS Svetozar Marovic on suspicion of paying 450,000 Swiss francs to bribe the Swiss administration, in order to prevent arrival of evidence of his former secret multi-million account in the local HSBC Bank to Montenegro, learned the Dnevne […]

Three current and former officials from Moldova’s central bank were detained by prosecutors on the morning of August 5, in relation to investigations into money laundering in the former Soviet country, local sources reported. The move was confirmed by a spokesperson for the National Anticorruption Centre, Angela Starinschi. The three suspects are believed to have […]