An analysis made by the local news agency Mediafax shows the widespread corruption in Romania as well as the amplitude of the country’s anticorruption campaign. Over half of Romania’s county council presidents and more than a third of the city mayors that have been elected in office in 2012, have been investigated by the National […]

The future of another independent media outlet in Macedonia is in doubt after Telma’s owners, Makpetrol, were charged with fraud. Macedonia’s Interior Ministry filed 21 criminal charges on Thursday, mostly against high officials in Makpetrol, the biggest private company for distribution and sale of petroleum in the country, and owner of the Telma national television […]

President of municipality of Budva Lazar Radjenovic, former vice president Dragan Marovic, councellor of the prime minister Aleksandar Ticic, and Novak Klisic, Miodrag Samardzic, Milenko Medigovic, suspects for the abuse of public service position, were sentenced to detention of 30 days by investigation judge of the Higher court in Podgorica Radomir Ivanovic, as CdM reports. […]

Eulex is credited with creating a decent rank-and-file Kosovo police force, but failing to combat organised crime and high-level corruption. Transparency International, a leading NGO, has accused EU law chiefs in Kosovo of “intimidation” of potential whistleblowers. It spoke out on Tuesday (12 August) on the case of Maria Bamieh, a British prosecutor, who used […]

Almost half of Germany’s asylum applicants come from the Balkans. Why are they coming, and what are they fleeing from? DW’s Verica Spasovska writes that the region’s political elites are to blame for the exodus.   War, hunger and torture are no longer commonplace in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia and Macedonia. For a decade and a […]

Moldova, a small country with strong ties to Russia, is an important component of the ongoing developments in Eastern Europe. Since the collapse of the USSR, the US and the European Union have been increasing their influence in Moldova by supporting political parties and social movements, encouraging Chisinau’s participation in their trade blocs, or boosting […]

Montenegro police on Thursday arrested the mayor of the resort of Budva and four other top officials on corruption charges. Lazar Radjenovic, Mayor of Budva Police on Thursday arrested the mayor and several other officials of the scandal-hit resort town of Budva, on suspicion of abuse of office and of damaging the local budget to […]

Some civil servants, officeholders and legislators collaborate with criminals according to 2014 Report on the State of Security in BiH. Some civil servants in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are granting favors to criminals. Some do it occasionally for cash and others are on the payroll to provide services according to 2014 Report on the State […]

The Association of Municipalities of Romania (AMR) and the Public Policies Institute (IPP) signed on Wednesday a cooperation protocol on establishing an agenda of mutual-interest issues, with the main topics being a performing administration and reducing corruption. The signatories of the document were Robert Negoita, the AMR Chairman and Mayor of Bucharest’s Sector 3, and […]

World Bank construction project in Bulgaria Public procurement around the globe presents high risk for corruption. There’s a great deal of money at stake –  the OECD reckons procurement spending averages between 13 and 20 per cent of GDP – so it is important that those getting the business do it fairly. Knowing who controls […]