The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published guidelines addressed to its 50 member states aimed at preventing corruption in the...
Tag - Corruption
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the coming decade will be decisive for the future of journalism, with the...
While civic activism was critical to both the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia, a question remains as to whether or not civil...
A court in Bratislava sentenced former soldier Miroslav Marček to 23 years prison on April 6 for the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak (pictured above) and his fiancée...
As this article was being written, Romania’s death toll from the novel coronavirus stood at 133, easily surpassing Ukraine’s 27 victims, Hungary’s 32, Poland’s 71 or the...
So there we have it. The year is done, and by and large it’s been a good one for emerging Europe. (I have brought together the main events of the year in a special...
Pavel Zeman, the chief public prosecutor of the Czech Republic has decided to reopen a case against Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš claiming that he illegally obtained...
Almost half of Czech entrepreneurs perceive corruption as a widespread phenomenon in the country and a barrier to doing business. According to a survey published by the...
The Czech anti-government protest movement A Million Moments for Democracy is calling for new mass demonstrations, and has called on the country’s prime minister...
Hungarian opposition party Momentum Movement has condemned a raid carried out by the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), whose agents searched the party’s...
The Czech Republic’s chief state attorney, Martin Erazim, has confirmed a decision to halt an investigation into alleged corruption carried out by the country’s...
Hungary misuses more European Union funds than any other country, claims a new report from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). OLAF concluded 52 probes into...
