Anti-Corruption Agency

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved progress in reforming its judiciary and, in particular, in ensuring its institutional independence, Serbian MPs told the president of Italy's National Anti-Corruption Agency Raffaele Cantone on Friday.

Italy's Anti-Corruption Agency chief visits Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Serbia "has achieved progress in reforming its judiciary and, in particular, in ensuring its institutional independence."

That is what Serbian MPs told the president of Italy's National Anti-Corruption Agency, Raffaele Cantone, in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and President of the Italian National Anti-Corruption Agency Raffaele Cantone agreed that cooperation between the two countries is necessary especially in the area of fight against corruption.

BELGRADE - Humans Rights House, a network of civil society organisations, has asked the Serbian parliament to investigate and remove for office Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

BELGRADE - Civil society organizations (CSOs) overseeing the work of public institutions and the media in Serbia demanded Friday from the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate pre-investigation proceedings and check all allegations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) about abuses in the Serbian government's tender for pumping water from a mine at the Kolubara coal bas

BELGRADE - Serbia needs a harsher policy on the fight against corruption, and therefore the adoption of a new law remains a priority as it would strengthen independence and powers of the Anti-Corruption Agency, Agency Director Tatjana Babic has said.

Corruption must be tackled "by whole of society"

BELGRADE -- The whole of society needs to be involved in the fight against corruption, but the government must take responsibility, a conference held in Belgrade has heard.

The gathering was held on International Anti-Corruption Day, December 9.

BELGRADE - The whole of society needs to be involved in the fight against corruption, but the government is the one that has to take responsibility, participants in a conference on the fight against corruption in Serbia, held in Belgrade on International Anti-Corruption Day, December 9.

Serbia's Anti-Corruption Agency has criticised the new draft Law on Financing Political Activities, saying that its provisions will make it more difficult for the Agency to audit political parties' finances.

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BELGRADE - The 2014 early parliamentary election campaign was largely financed through debt, and the total debt at the end of the campaign stood at RSD 467 million, said Ruzica Stojiljkovic of the Anti-Corruption Agency on Friday.