IT giant Microsoft has agreed to pay 25 million US dollars to settle an investigation against its Hungarian subsidiary over potential bribery and corruption. According...
Tag - Corruption
Croatian state assets minister Goran Marić (pictured above) has resigned, citing excessive media pressure. “I worked under terrible pressure, I became a target,” Mr...
International corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) will sue the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, over his failure to apologise for defamatory comments...
Corruption remains at the centre of attention when it comes to the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. While some countries have become synonymous with...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them here...
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader has been jailed for a previous corruption conviction after the country’s supreme court increased his original sentence...
Young people across Central and Eastern Europe are unsurprisingly claiming that corruption is the single biggest problem facing the region. A number have also –...
Romanian Minister of Justice Tudorel Toader has said that he will do all he can to block the appointment of a Romanian, Laura Codruța Kövesi (pictured above), as the...
The European parliament has overwhelmingly backed plans to cut EU funds to member states that undermine the rule of law or tolerate corruption, in a move that could...
My parents didn’t know that the name they chose for me meant ‘transparent’ in Spanish. But they did know the importance of transparency, honesty and integrity, and...
Moldova has launched a ground-breaking electronic procurement system which it is hoped will radically transform the way public funds are spent in the country. The new...
In a new report released on August 9, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body GRECO finds that Macedonia has made no substantial progress in implementing...
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative (RAI) have published a major new study analysing asset...
