Transparency

A report adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) on June 24 says media transparency should be promoted, stressing the importance of freedom of expression and media pluralism for a functioning democracy.

The citizens' confidence in the state institutions should start from concrete measures for more transparent and open data, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Tuesday in his message to the conference 'Transparency and Open Data - Anticorruption and Security' organized by the "Ovidiu Sincai" Social Democratic Institute (ISD), in a partnership with the General Secretariat of th

A report prepared by the Checks and Balances Network is shedding light on the untold part of the Turkish election system A report prepared by the Checks and Balances Network (Denge ve Denetleme A??) under the title of ?Financing the politics and election campaign: Competition, Transparency and Accountability?

BELGRADE - The non-governmental organisation Transparency Serbia (TS) has commented on the first year of the current government's term in office by saying that the anti-corruption reforms are lagging behind schedule, and that some important issues related to the battle against corruption have not been addressed properly.

The change of the political class could not take place without transparency in the administration of the money received by the political parties, says president Klaus Iohannis.

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"Most media not contributing to informing citizens"

BELGRADE -- Most media content does not serve to "raise the level of general informedness of the Serbian citizens," Miroslav Milicevic said on Wednesday.

The Anti-Corruption Council vice president was addressing a session of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Information,

BELGRADE - Most media content does not serve the function of raising the level of general informedness of the Serbian citizens, Anti-Corruption Council Vice President Miroslav Milicevic said on Wednesday.

Transparency International has criticized a vote in Turkey's parliament that rejected motions to send four former ministers implicated in a vast corruption scandal to trial by the country's highest court.
     

The Turkish government has launched measures to bring "transparency" to public spending, with provisions aimed at transparency and accountability in funding for political parties and election campaigns.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu announced the "Program for Transparency in Public Administration" at a press conference on Jan. 14, accompanied by members of his cabinet.

Turkey’s economic and political institutions have always been part of a “sultan’s state” and this can only be overcome by public demands from below for more human rights, freedom and transparency, according to leading economist Daron Acemoğlu.