Former Minister Dritan Prifti says intimate pictures circulating online have only emerged because he has accused Speaker Ilir Meta of corruption. Albanian media have published leaked photos and tape allegedly featuring a former energy minister in intimate positions with a woman, in what his supporters say is retaliation for his role in uncovering corruption. Online […]

Claims that Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik once took a kilo of gold from a Russian businessman are fuelling heat in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska. Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik is battling accusations that he took a kilo of gold as a donation from a Russian businessman. The accusation, which he and the Russian […]

CHISINAU — The tent city in the center of Moldova’s capital sprung up the evening of Sept. 6, just after a downtown protest had drawn thousands. The demonstrators decided on the spot to stay until they could claim victory; and by nightfall, a few dozen tents had appeared. By the next day there were at […]

Even though laws were passed 15 years ago giving citizens the right to information from public institutions, actually getting that information has not happened. The state Agency for Drugs and Medicine Equipment has spent nearly 90,000 KM over three years in the interest of establishing good relations with clients. Agency Director Nataša Grubiš approved a […]

Romania’s National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), which is in charge of investigating the corruption offences, has seen a significant increase in the trust ranking, in the last year. Some 60% of Romanians say they trust the DNA, according to a survey made by social research institute INSCOP in September 2015, 11 percentage more than in September […]

Corruption, high level of unemployment, weak performance by the government, are the main problems that citizens of Kosovo face today. Based on a survey conducted by Speak movement, around 52,8% of people in Kosovo consider unemployment as the main problem, while 39% believe that corruption is one of the main problems. Around 34% of citizens […]

The OSCE said on Saturday that the report alleging wrongdoing by 36 Albanian MPs, prepared in October 2014 and leaked last week to the Lapsi.al website, “contained information circulating in the country and was not the official view of the organisation”. The report claimed that the MPs, including Prime Minister Edi Rama, the speaker of […]

After hours of talks brokered by the EU, Macedonia’s political parties met a Tuesday deadline to agree on the appointment of a special prosecutor who will probe the illegal surveillance claims that have shaken the government. The EU facilitator in the talks, Peter Vanhoutte has called Macedonian politicians on accountablilty After marathon talks, Macedonia’s political […]

Justice in ridding Croatia of paralysing corrupt practices inherited from the communist power-bases of former Yugoslavia, or at least reducing them so that corruption ceases to stifle democratic progress including the economy, has indeed been a long-suffering entity in Croatia. Croatia that is free from corruption is the new bright position people want Croatia to […]

Romania’s National Integrity Agency (ANI) has found EUR 780,000 in a bank account in Israel that belonged to Constanta’s former mayor Radu Mazare. The money hadn’t been declared in Mazare’s wealth statements, according to ANI. ANI had also signaled a EUR 170,000 difference between Radu Mazare’s gained assets and his declared revenues, following a previous […]