Despite the high corruption levels, observed through SELDI's 2021 Corruption Monitoring System (CMS), the Western Balkan countries continue to lack a coherent approach to tackling the problem. A number of...
Civil society organizations have become critical protagonists in the fight against organized crime and corruption. However, less than 1% out of all 100,000 registered CSOs in the Western Balkans deal...
The Kremlin’s war in Ukraine has come to dominate the agenda in Europe in a very urgent way. It has forced the EU to scramble to action for reinvigorating enlargement...
International and regional cooperation is a powerful tool for effectively addressing the problem of corruption. Corruption is an intricate issue that requires exchanging experiences and good practices between countries. Numerous...
The comparative analysis of SEE‑9 public procurement and energy SOEs’ management practices in the first R2G4P SEE Good Governance report reveals continuing corruption and state capture risks, despite the emergence...
The energy sector presents one of the main systematic governance problems leading to significant losses of public wealth and providing inroads for illicit finance and foreign authoritarian influence in the...
The first SEE Good Governance report, published by the R2G4P anti-corruption initiative, focuses on two of the most testing governance vulnerabilities in the region: public procurement and governance of state-owned...
The hidden economy is closely linked to corruption. Empirical studies show that they fuel each other - a one-point rise in the index of corruption is associated with an increase...
The present report focused on two of the most challenging governance vulnerabilities in the SEE region: analyzing the integrity of the public procurement systems and the management of the energy...
State capture is a combination of different forms of corruption which have a single objective: to secure wholesale and long-term privileges to captors by exploiting the power of governments for...
The main purpose of the manual is to introduce how data analytics can encourage good governance practices by highlighting the weaknesses of public procurement systems and by supporting independent corruption...
The MACPI methodology was initially developed by the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and University of Trento in 2014-2015 with the support of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for...
