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The decisions have raised criticism among opposition MPs that the government is using the COVID-19 measures to improve its relations with the media without transparency.

The need for transparency has been embraced by various institutions and bodies, such as national governments, political parties, as well as international organizations and private enterprises.

Alphabet Inc's Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on May 19, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world.

An Athens Court of Appeals has found former general secretary for procurements Yiannis Sbokos guilty of taking bribes in connection with the purchase of the TOR-M1 short-range missile defense system.

The court also upheld charges against Petros Christodoulides, a broker, and businessman Giorgos Kamaris.

Croatia on Wednesday said its police had arrested the teenager behind Webstresser.org, a website where users could order Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS, attacks against internet pages worldwide.

Turkey's economic development, which has been "looking quite good," hampers the exposure of "real problems," according to OECD Working Group on Bribery chair Drago Kos, who urged that the low level of transparency should be higher on the agenda.

The citizens' confidence in the state institutions should start from concrete measures for more transparent and open data, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea declared on Tuesday in his message to the conference 'Transparency and Open Data - Anticorruption and Security' organized by the "Ovidiu Sincai" Social Democratic Institute (ISD), in a partnership with the General Secretariat of th

A report prepared by the Checks and Balances Network is shedding light on the untold part of the Turkish election system A report prepared by the Checks and Balances Network (Denge ve Denetleme A??) under the title of ?Financing the politics and election campaign: Competition, Transparency and Accountability?

The Turkish government is bidding to minimize the informal economy by increasing inspections in a number of fields - from people's income to municipalities' construction licenses - with a new transparency reform package, which is expected to be introduced to Parliament within a month.