A court in Kiev has sentenced former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to 13 years in prison for "high treason" for calling for Russian intervention to quash the pro-European protests that... read more →
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on European countries to enact legislation that allows sanctions to be imposed on persons involved in serious human rights violations and... read more →
The well-known Montenegrin investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic was sentenced to one and a half years in prison in Podgorica last Tuesday on charges of drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy, a... read more →
MEPs on Thursday approved a proposal to deny EU funds to Member States that fail to uphold the rule of law or tolerate fraud and corruption. The proposal, which was... read more →
Pelin Ünker, a Turkish journalist who participated in the Paradise Papers revelations in November 2017, was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 months in prison for "insulting and defaming" former Turkish... read more →
Laura Codruta Kovesi has taken the Romanian government to the European Court of Human Rights to appeal her dismissal as head of the National Anti-corruption Directorate last year. In the... read more →
As of 1 January 2019 gambling will be banned in Albania as part of a crackdown on on organised crime and money laundering. The law, which was passed by the... read more →
Germany has a “massive problem” with money laundering by criminal organisations in its property sector, according to a report by the German branch of Transparency International. Billions of euros are... read more →
Romania’s governing Social Democratic Party (PSD) has announced plans to push through highly controversial reforms to the country’s criminal code by way of an emergency ordinance, according to Romanian website... read more →
The attack on the Macedonian parliament that took place in April 2017, injuring more than hundred people including the current prime minister, Zoran Zaev, was orchestrated directly from VMRO-DPMNE party... read more →
