Anti-corporate activism

The lifestyle of Apostolos Lytras, marked by conspicuous consumption including luxury vehicles such as Ferraris and Porsches, has generated significant controversy in Greece, particularly in light of his substantial declared tax payments of €50,000

Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple are among the tech giants slated to convene in Sofia for a landmark event in 2025. The prestigious Real World Crypto Symposium (RWC), a gathering of over 1,000 representatives from the world's top technological entities, will be hosted by the INSAIT Institute at Sofia University "St.

Big Tech, Big Fines

The European Union announced yesterday that it opened a formal antitrust investigation targeting Microsoft into the software company's Teams messaging and videoconferencing app over concerns that its bundling with its Office productivity software suites gives it an unfair edge over competitors.

Whistleblowers in the public and private sectors in Slovenia will enjoy better protection under a bill passed by the National Assembly on 27 January. The law sets down avenues to report breaches of legislation and includes a ban on retaliation and an obligation to protect a whistleblower's identity.

Haque is one of 10 Bangladeshi workers employed by the INCA factory in Lezha. The manager says Albania no longer supplies enough labour, forcing him to seek workers far away.

"I plan to stay here for a long time because I have no other solution," Abudalep, 28, another Bangladeshi migrant employed at the INCA factory told BIRN. "In my country there is no work," he adds.

Ljubljana – The implementation of the EU directive on the protection of whistleblowers is extremely important for the fight against corruption, agreed participants of Tuesday’s round table debate on whistleblowers hosted by the British-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce.

Western Balkans is setting an example 

Interior view of Agora building of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. Photo: Wikimedia commons/Adrian Grycuk

Supreme Court authorities will rule Monday on the status of the witness protection regime for key whistleblowers who have been summoned to testify by the parliamentary committee conducting a preliminary inquiry into the handling of the Novartis bribery case by the previous administration. 

A delegation from Parliament's preliminary inquiry committee into the handling of the Novartis bribery case by the previous administration petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to look into the status of its three key whistleblowers.