Media transparency

The idea that subsidies for businesses and development projects should not be distributed through the current process, but as a tax deductions, could contribute to the transparency and effectiveness of state aid. 

The aid given to businesses from time to time has not paid off as expected and certainly did not reduce Greece's productive deficit. 

The media environment in Bulgaria remains troubled by concerns regarding the independence of the press and the influence of political and economic forces. The European Commission's annual rule of law report for 2023, released on July 24, highlights ongoing issues in these areas.

People have experienced the benefit from the digitization of state services in their daily lives. No reason has been presented for anyone to be suspicious of the completion of this great reform. 

Digital speed and transparency in the real estate market will ultimately benefit those actors who are now reacting. 

The European Commission presented today the second annual report on the rule of law in the EU, this time making recommendations to individual countries. The EC recommends that the anti-corruption commission take consistent action to reach final verdicts in cases where senior officials are held accountable.

The mayor of Sparta and former minister of ND, Petros Doukas, gave his own answer after the reactions to his unacceptable statements about the fires in Ilia in 2007.

Bechtel looks set to clinch yet another highway deal in the Balkans, and transparency advocates are concerned.

Together with our partners, BIRN is launching a series of online and offline events aimed to amplify the voices of strong and credible individuals and organisations in the region that promote the core values of democracy, such as civic engagement, independent institutions, transparency and rule of law.

A Transparency report was published in Guardian

Serbia's Progressive Party government has long been accused of a lack of transparency. Now it wants to enshrine the practice in law, journalists and civil society experts say.

The decisions have raised criticism among opposition MPs that the government is using the COVID-19 measures to improve its relations with the media without transparency.