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Whistleblowers in the public and private sectors in Slovenia will enjoy better protection under a bill passed by the National Assembly on 27 January. The law sets down avenues to report breaches of legislation and includes a ban on retaliation and an obligation to protect a whistleblower's identity.

Police said she was arrested for ‘disobedience’

A prosecutor in Athens charged two teenagers with grievous bodily harm for the violent beating of a metro station manager in central Athens on Wednesday, when he asked them to wear a mask in the train.

They were also charged with disobedience, a misdemeanour, after they refused to give fingerprints.

Two men who were arrested last Wednesday while trying to plant two incendiary devices outside an apartment building in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria, where a former conservative minister lives, are to face an investigating magistrate in the northern port city on Monday on a string of criminal charges.

Ministers of social policy, health and education, lawmakers, trade union representatives, the national ombudsperson and protesting mothers of disabled children held at a joint meeting in Parliament on 4th of October and discussed the speeding up of legislation on social issues, reports BNT. 

The draft law intended to protect the people who supplied evidence about illegal mass surveillance to Macedonia's opposition as well as to shield future whistleblowers is expected to reach parliament by October 20 after both government and opposition agreed on its content.

Watchdog organisation Transparency Serbia told BIRN that the Nenadic case will be a good test of the effectiveness of the recently-adopted legislation protecting whisteblowers.

"This case will show how effective the new law is, because we haven't had such a case since the enactment of the law," said Bojana Medenica from Transparency Serbia.

Serbia’s new Law on Whistleblower Protection, which entered into force Friday, prescribes no penalties for criminal acts violating whistleblowers’ rights.

This is true even when it comes to "the grossest forms of violations" of these rights, Transparency Serbia said.

The main opposition party is so eager to get its hands on the helm of government it is ignoring terse warnings from our international partners as it tries to reassure everyone that it has worked things out with the country?s creditors and that the cavalry is marching up from the south of Europe.

Parliament adopts law to protect whistleblowers

BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament on Tuesday adopted a law on protection of whistleblowers protection.

It provides for "full protection for individuals reporting suspected corruption and should encourage everyone to report malpractice."