/Issue/Anticorruption

2012-02-18The German car manufacturer said it will not deal with the Kosovo government through contractors.

2012-02-16Kosovo furthers its attack on corruption by launching the Anti-organised Crime Council on Wednesday.

2012-02-03Going into an election year, a court decision sentencing former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase to two years in prison will have an impact on domestic politics, analysts say.

2012-02-02The European Commission chides both Kosovo authorities and EULEX.

2011-12-06The rise in corruption is largely due to the country's political regression.

2011-12-03Police arrested 87 people for toll-fee crimes as Macedonia is intensifying efforts to root out organised crime.

2011-07-12Lack of political will and legislation has made the fight against corruption elusive.

2011-06-13Corruption costs the bloc an estimated 120 billion euro per year, officials say.

2011-05-24BUCHAREST, Romania -- Police conducted a large anti-corruption operation Monday (May 23rd), searching the homes of dozens of customs officials in Buc...

2011-05-18ANKARA, Turkey -- Following the weekend arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Tuesday (May 17th) that ha...

2011-05-06BUCHAREST, Romania -- Prosecutors filed corruption charges Thursday (May 5th) against 69 police officers and customs officials from three border chec...

2011-05-03ANKARA, Turkey -- About 50 municipal officials in the Aegean provinces of Izmir and Aydin were detained on Monday (May 2nd) in an anti-corruption swe...

2011-02-09ATHENS, Greece -- A council of judges dropped charges Tuesday (February 8th) against three former ministers accused in relation to land swap deals in...

2011-02-07SKOPJE, Macedonia -- A court in Skopje warned on Saturday (February 5th) that it will issue an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovs...

2010-12-08PRISTINA, Kosovo -- The European Commission (EC) sent a letter to the government expressing dissatisfaction with efforts by Kosovo institutions to fi...

2010-11-14SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Local prosecutors indicted Emilia Maslarova, labour minister in the previous cabinet, on Friday (November 12th) for embezzling 5.5...

2010-11-11PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Pristina's District Court found former Parliament Speaker Nexhat Daci and his advisor Ahmet Alishani guilty of abusing their offi...

2010-10-06TIRANA, Albania -- Chief Prosecutor Ina Rama announced on Tuesday (October 5th) that her office will investigate every corruption case brought to its...

2010-02-02ZAGREB, Croatia -- In a money-for-passing grades scheme, 19 professors, students and mediators from the Faculty of Economics at the University in Zag...