There is no country in the world that is totally immune to corruption. The tragedy lies, however, in the fact that in the SEE region, i.e. in out "transition" states, the corruption has turned into an epydemics.

It is everywhere. I couldn't tell which is more serious and dangerous: the corruption in politics, which is reflected strongly on the development of a state, therefore on the prosperity of its citizens; or is it more terrifying that the citizens themselves actully accept the corruption as something ordinary and use it as a powerful tool on the quest for personal prosperity. Or is the corruption of moral and ethical values that is, actually, the most serious? To put it briefly, corruption is a part of our daily lives nowadays.

Transparency International defines corruption as an abuse of acquired power and authority for personal gains. As such, the corruption leads to distortion of all rules of fair competition and, if applied often, to waste of resources, alredy scarce in the developing countries. Tha only contributes to the general disregard for the basic needs of the population and increase of wide-spread poverty. Read more.

03.11.2008 The Citizens of Sarajevo (Gradjani Sarajeva) informal group and the Protest.ba Initiative called on the members of Sarajevo City Council, the City Administration and the MPs in the Cantonal Assembly to stop claiming sole ownership over the Vijećnica Building, adding that no decision on the future use of the Vijećnica is possible without prior consultation with the citizens.

09.08.2005 The existing legal framework in Croatia allows the local self-government units to dispose of their own budgets independently, so that financing of the work of certain political parties from the municipal budgets is not illegal, notes TI Croatia's Zorislav Antun Petrovic in this opinion article.

30.03.2007 For the second year in the row IDRA (Institute for Development Research and Alternatives) prepared and published the Corruption Survey report. On 28th of March, the results of the survey were presented in a conference organized by Rule of Law/USAID project at Sheraton Hotel.