Electoral fraud

71% of Bulgarians say it is necessary to investigate corruption at the highest political level, and 63% say that corruption at municipal level has to be investigated, said Alpha Research manager Boryana Dimitrova at a round table, Focus News Agency reports.

The head of Turkey's election watchdog has denied allegations that hundreds of thousands of ghost voters were registered for the upcoming local polls, while informing that the registrations of more than 55,000 voters have been frozen because of changes in constituencies.

The free-for-all over defense kickbacks has cost Greece dearly, benefiting only a very small minority and causing considerable long-term damage.

Greece acquired very expensive, and in some cases useless, defense systems and has often lacked the means to properly maintain them.

These are "two processes that go hand in hand at the time of the fourth industrial revolution, adding that it is the best answer to corruption," Brnabic said, quoted by the Serbian government.

Loncar offered Josifovski an opportunity to join a Ministry of Health team that deals with the prevention of corruption in the health care sector.

Some of the 56 million registered voters across Turkey took their pets to the polling stations in the landmark snap presidential and legislative elections. The pets certainly helped put smiles on the faces of fellow voters and personnel on duty.

A deadline for Afghans to register to vote in the Oct. 20 legislative elections has been extended, officials said on May 11, as figures show hundreds of civilians have already been killed or wounded in poll-related violence.

A study conducted Europewide shows that 68 percent of Romanians perceive corruption as a phenomenon that affects their daily lives, Chief Prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi told a debate on Tuesday on corruption in Romania's public healthcare system.

More than 10 employees of the Executive Agency "Automobile Administration" in the city of Blagoevgrad were arrested in an anticorruption operation carried out by the Specialised Prosecutior's Office and the chief directorate for combatting organized crime on 24th of April.

Lawmakers in the House of Peoples of Bosnia's state-level parliament are to vote on Wednesday on legal changes approving the use video surveillance and scanners during polling.

"We want voters to decide on the results of the election, and not those who count the votes," Sasa Magazinovic, a member of parliament from the Social Democratic Party, SDP, told BIRN.