Transparency

Greece's National Transparency Authority is investigating at least three nongovernmental organizations that provide support to refugees and migrants for financial mismanagement.

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.

Without the assistance of organized and trained volunteers, the management of the refugee crisis would have been far more burdensome for the state.

The corruption perceptions in Bulgaria - the strongest across the European Union, the latest Transparency International survey shows.

The 2019 CPI draws on 13 surveys and expert assessments to measure public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories, giving each a score from zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

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.

A bill seeking to streamline the administration, ensure its effective functioning regardless of changes in government and guarantee transparency enters the Parliament plenum on Monday.

Romania's Justice Minister Ana Birchall on Tuesday welcomed a delegation of the European Commission on its first mission to Romania this year to assess the progress of the country with judicial reform and the fight against corruption under the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM).

Transparency is a great thing - so great that every democratic country should have it. In that sense, a recent opinion piece in Ta Nea newspaper by Movement for Change (KINAL) MP and former health minister Andreas Loverdos in which he asks for the next Parliament to examine "SYRIZA's attempt to establish a state separate from the democracy of transparency" makes sense.

The European Commission on Wednesday tabled a proposal that will make available important information on how prices are determined as agri-food products move along the food supply chain.

China's Belt and Road projects across the Balkans display a worrying lack of transparency - but most ordinary people are more interested in the chance of new jobs, an expert on China says.