Corruption
The New Economy: Is the Fight Against Corruption Corrupt?
More than ten million euros were spent on the fight against corruption, and Serbia has the worst results in the region in this regard
Electoral laws
The adopted "Petrašinović Laws", the government claims to have fulfilled 70 percent of ODIHR's recommendations
The so-called "Petrašinović Laws" were adopted. While the pressures on voters, official campaigns and misuse of public resources are evident in all elections, the government claims that citizens have "extremely high confidence" in the electoral process
Public procurement
BIRN: "Fabulous" rigging of public procurement for minister Starović's sister
Almost 26 million dinars were paid from the budget to companies and organizations of Ognjana Starović, the sister of Minister for European Integration Nemanja Starović, through public tenders and procurements for media services, which Nemanja Nenadić, program director of Transparency Serbia, describes as "flagrant" examples of public procurement rigging, BIRN writes.
Corruption
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.
Interview: Nemanja Nenadić, program director of Transparency Serbia
Things are even worse.
"It is very wrong that Serbia's progress in the fight against corruption at a high level is measured only on the basis of statistical data on the number of indictments of the Prosecutor's Office for organized crime and accompanying verdicts. In Serbia, the performance in that field should be measured first of all by whether there were cases where the corrupt participation of high state officials was suspected - and those cases were not investigated"
Assembly of Serbia
Will the election of Nemanja Nenadić as the head of the Working Group for the Improvement of the Electoral Process improve the conditions?
The first meeting of the Working Group for the Improvement of the Electoral Process was held in the Parliament of Serbia, and Nemanja Nenadić, program director of the organization Transparency Serbia, was elected as the chairman. The next meeting will be held on May 7