Corruption

Health

21.May 2026. B. B.

"Doctors against corruption": As many as 700.000 citizens of Serbia have no teeth

At the age of 12, 36 percent of children have all healthy teeth, and at the age of 15, 22 percent

Serbia and Montenegro

21.May 2026. B. B.

Twenty years later: Where is Montenegro and where is Serbia

Two decades after the split, Serbia is more successful in terms of the overall economy, infrastructure and labor market, but Montenegro has a higher average salary, better media freedom, and the phrase "like heaven and earth" applies when it comes to EU integration.

Hungary

19.May 2026. B. B.

Behind the scenes of Orban's government: Luxury palaces, opulence, propaganda and billions of euros (video)

Thanks to a kind of tourist video-tour of the new prime minister, the citizens of Hungary have the opportunity to see the luxury in which the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, worked until recently.

Police in front of the Novi Sad City Assembly

Police and criminals

17.May 2026. B. B.

Rodoljub Šabić: Inexplicably large assets of people from the top of the police

"The main problem, the source of all others, is the connection of people from the top of the police with organized crime," says lawyer and legal analyst Rodoljub Šabić.

Personal attitude

02.April 2026. Ljubomir Madjar

Structural defects in the perception and assessment of democratic renewal

The student protests will turn out to be one decisive layer of material embedded in the magnificent creation of the future democratic liberation. Regardless of when it will happen and who among us will be able to experience it

Corruption in urban planning

13.February 2026. KS

Space as a commodity: How widespread is corruption in urban planning

New research data on corruption in urban planning show that most experts believe that space is not treated as a public good, but as a marketable commodity whose valuation and planning are too often left to private interests

A man in a factory with a cable in his hand

Foreign investment

12.February 2026. NM

Abrupt return of foreign investments in Serbia: Uncertainty, corruption, labor shortage

The latest Demostat research showed that foreign direct investments in Serbia almost halved last year, because in the first nine months the gross inflow was around 2,5 billion euros.

Research

10.February 2026. IN THE

Serbia the most corrupt in the region: The lowest result since 2012

Last year, Serbia further worsened its score on the Index of Corruption Perceptions and for the first time became the worst ranked country in the region, announced the organization Transparency Serbia.

Amendments to the Law on Public Prosecution

20.January 2026 B. B.

JTOK: The government wants to block investigations into organized crime and high corruption

The Collegium of the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime warned that the adoption of amendments to the proposed amendment to the Public Prosecutor's Law would mean a complete blocking of proceedings in the cases of the most dangerous organized criminal groups and high levels of corruption.

Progressive economy

07.January 2026 AI

Šoškić: Inflationary pressure in 2026 announced

Corruption has significant consequences for the economy of Serbia, and the progressive economic policy is reduced to a series of populist measures without a vision, according to Dejan Šoškić, a professor at the Faculty of Economics.

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić in the Oval Room of the White House with Donald Trump

Overview of the week

19.December 2025 Philip Schwarm

Why Trump can't come up with Vucic

It is easy to imagine Vučić's voice echoing through Bokeljka in the dead of night: "Oh Trump, why can't you stand me?" The answer to Truth Social would most likely be - "Because you're a matchmaker"

Interview: Nikola Radin

18.December 2025 Filip Mirilović

Budget of Belgrade - ATM for the privileged

From the auditing point of view, the biggest failure in the management of the city in the last few years is the absence of a functional management system. There is no clear and consistent connection between set goals, planning and actual spending of budget funds. The performance is almost not measured at all, it is not monitored whether the spent money produced the expected results, and risk management is practically neglected. This is compounded by the fact that laws and regulations are violated at almost every step

Interview: Mirjam Goldin, political scientist

18.December 2025 Ivica Dobrić

Overturning the corruption balance

"When I was doing research on the political processes in Italy, I didn't understand why the country was so corrupt. I found out very quickly that the reason was that the party in power allowed it. The people in power had an interest in maintaining it. Politicians really profited from corruption because it allowed them to stay in power. They didn't really want to help the economy develop because they didn't want integration into global markets. They knew it would be too competitive for them."

From the new issue

17.December 2025 FM

Are utilities rising for the citizens of Belgrade because of rigged tenders?

"The money of the citizens of Belgrade is spent according to the political key - for measures that bring quick political points and personal benefit," says Nikola Radin, economist and executive director of the "Belgrade on the Move" organization, for the new issue of "Vremena".

From the new issue

17.December 2025 ID

The state pays employees to be corrupt

Does everyone in the world pay bribes, are we as ordinary citizens "guilty" of participating in petty corruption, as well as how to prevent deep institutionalized corruption, says American political scientist Miriam Goldin for the new issue of Vremena.

Former Minister of Construction Goran Vesić with a cap in front of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime

Canopy fall

17.November 2025 B. B.

Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime: Vesić's first statement about the canopy fall

The former Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Goran Vesić, on Monday gave his testimony for the first time before the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime in the investigation of the reconstruction of the canopy of the Railway Station in Novi Sad.

China

12.November 2025 Aleksandar Novačić

Corruption is rust, faction is cancer

While in the West there is speculation about "missing generals", in Beijing the role of party supervision and the way of controlling the army is actually being redefined. It is not just a purge, but a gradual process of transferring control mechanisms from humans to algorithms. Artificial intelligence is becoming a key loyalty filter among both military and civilian leaders

EXPO 2027

11.November 2025 B. B.

The problem is not EXPO, but corruption

"The EXPO in itself is not a bad project. The problem with the EXPO is that most of that money will end up in private pockets", believes the expert of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Branimir Jovanović

Focus on civil society

03.November 2025 IN THE

Sweden suspends part of the aid to Serbia due to corruption

Due to the lack of reform spirit and concerns about respect for rights and freedoms, Sweden suspends part of its support to state institutions in Serbia and redirects funds to civil society.

Bor

28.October 2025 AI

They bought overpriced waste containers, pocketed the difference

One example of modest-scale corruption in Bor reveals the entire system on which the progressive order rests

Expo 2027

15.October 2025 B. B.

The opposition warns that Expo 2027 will "push Serbia into debt slavery"

Opposition MPs assessed that Expo 2027 is a corrupt project that will further burden Serbia

Transparency Serbia

27.September 2025 B. B.

The announced legalization law is a reward for criminal acts

"The proposed legal solutions reward the commission of criminal acts, which construction without a permit is, since 2009", emphasizes Transparency Serbia

17.September 2025 MS

Who are the Stajić brothers, who shelled out a million euros for bail

Nemanja Stajić, once the first man of the Secretariat for the legalization of the building in Belgrade, and his brother Novak Stajić were released on a bail of one million euros.

Nepal

14.September 2025 B. B.

The new Prime Minister of Nepal: I will respond to the demands of the protesters to end corruption

"We have to work with the mindset of Generation Z," said Nepal's newly appointed Prime Minister Sushila Karki

Personal attitude

10.September 2025 Daniel Bochsler

The two faces of polarization

The criminal activities of politicians and "businessmen" (to use a euphemism) can bring entire economies to the brink of collapse. Moldova has barely recovered from the 2014 banking scandal. Then the three largest banks stole 12 percent of GDP through fraudulent transactions, and the state stepped in and is still suffering the consequences of the financial collapse today. One of the oligarchs behind the bank robberies, Ilan Shor, became actively involved in politics

Corruption

10.September 2025 NM

According to the perception of corruption, Nepal and Serbia are separated by only one index point

Nemanja Nenadić from Transparency Serbia said that according to the corruption perception index, Nepal and Serbia are considered very corrupt countries, and that the difference is only one point.

Nepal

10.September 2025 AI

Outbreak of Rage: What Sparked the 'Generation Z' Rebellion in Nepal?

Clashes between protesters and the police, nineteen dead, the parliament building on fire, the resignation of the government, tens of thousands of young Nepalis on the streets. What caused the outburst of anger of "generation Z" in Nepal and why did Aleksandar Vučić recognize himself in it