Ombudsman

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Administration and Local Government Kori Udovicki stressed on Tuesday that the public administration reform was one of the key elements of the social changes in Serbia.

The European Parliament reelected on Tuesday the incumbent European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly with a large majority.

O'Reilly was first elected to the position in 2013, succeeding her predecessor Nikiforos Diamandouros upon his retirement.

The Ombudsman has called on the government to take further steps to ensure that minors are not kept with adults at the Amygdaleza detention center for migrants in northern Athens.

Officials from the independent rights watchdog visited the camp in August and found that the proper processes were not in place to separate minors from adults when they arrived at the center.

BELGRADE - Serbia has issued 107,000 personal identification documents to its Roma citizens in the past 7 years, but some members of this population are still legally invisible, according to what was said at a meeting on Thursday dedicated to the problems Roma face.

Bulgaria's courts will be flooded by "an avalanche of lawsuits" with connection to the Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB), Bulgaria's Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev told the BNR public broadcaster.

BELGRADE - Torture does not exist in Serbia as a systemically organised and encouraged phenomenon, but there are individual cases of abuse, which are tolerated by the authorities, Deputy Ombudsman Milos Jankovic said on Wednesday.

Deputy ombudsman: No systemic torture in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Torture does not exist in Serbia as a systemically organized and encouraged phenomenon, Deputy Ombudsman Miloš Janković said on Wednesday.

But he noted there were "individual cases of abuse, which are tolerated by the authorities."...

The man who is responsible for targeting corruption in Greece’s public administration has raised serious concerns about the effectiveness of the panel meant to discipline public hospital doctors.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) ruled on Thursday that the instructions of the Law on the free-of-charge transfer of more than 1.3 million share package held by the state in the National Company of the Administration of Maritime Ports S.A.

Greece’s Ombudsman has condemned the Greek Police (ELAS) over the alleged detention of a citizen who was mistakenly taken for a fugitive criminal and held for eight days. It called on Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias to arrange for the victim to be compensated and to take measures to ensure the same mistake does not happen again.