Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski, finance minister Zoran Stavreski and former interior minister Gordana Jankuloska will be first to appear the parliamentary commission probing mass illegal wiretapping.   The three officials, who are among those most implicated in the mass wiretapping that was revealed in February by the opposition, were proposed as the first witnesses to […]

Romanian lawmakers voted on Thursday to lift the immunity of a leftist senator and allow prosecutors to arrest him on corruption charges, after denying a similar request in a separate case against him earlier this year. Senator Dan Sova The European Union state is seen as one of the bloc’s most corrupt states and its […]

Montenegro’s prosecution charged the ex-mayor of the resort of Budva and nine other top officials and businessmen in a high-profile, multi-million-euro corruption case. The Montenegrin state prosecutor on Monday charged ex-mayor Lazar Radjenovic and several other officials from the scandal-hit resort town of Budva with abuse of office and costing the local budget eight million […]

The EU has launched an assessment exercise of several Moldovan institutions, upon the request of the Moldovan Parliament and Government. The aim is to provide advice and recommendations on the structure and activities of key rule of law institutions in the Republic of Moldova in three different areas: reform process of the justice sector, anti-money […]

The first two cases launched by the newly formed Macedonian special prosecution unit will focus on Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and former top members of his cabinet.     The prosecution announced on Nov. 26 that its inaugural investigation will be into allegations that former secret services chief Saso Mijalkov, a first cousin of the […]

Gordan Pavlović got a deal when he bought a Foča coal mine for 6 million KM. He then hired fewer than a quarter of the workers he promised to, yet has never been punished. When Gordan Pavlović bought the New Mine of Brown Coal Miljevina near Foča for 6 million KK, he got a great […]

Opposition parties in Republika Srpska (RS) have lodged a criminal complaint against the RS prime minister and finance minister over a controversial loan the government took, allegedly without National Assembly approval.   The development, the latest in a long line of accusations, has heightened conflict between major parties in the RS, one of the two […]

An Education Ministry panel is to rule on whether Interior Minister Petre Toba copied some of his doctoral thesis from papers posted on the internet by others.     Romania’s National Ethics Council, an Education Ministry panel, is to analyse this week if Toba plagiarised material for his PhD thesis, after media reports alleged that […]

Serbia’s health minister denied he violated personal data protection legislation when he revealed details from the health record of a former newspaper director who made allegations against the country’s premier. Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar on Monday denied accusations by the Serbia’s Commissioner for Public Information and several opposition parties that he may have broken […]

A law designed to bar criminals from holding public office has won cross-party support – but many experts doubt it will be enough. A law designed to cleanse Albanian politics of people with criminal records has obtained a consensus among all the main political options in the country. If adopted, as seems likely, it will ban […]