The President of the European Commission has announced 2025 as the target year for the next EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans. The EU would need to carefully balance the...
According to the authors of the policy brief, not declaring in full or partially economic activities in SEE remains widespread in virtually all areas of government – permissions and licenses,...
The current policy brief presents SELDI's key findings on the manifestations, causes and impacts of the hidden economy and undeclared labour in SEE in 2016. According to the research, the...
The policy brief analyses the energy sector governance deficits and related corruption risks. Weak democratic traditions, networks of political protectionism, economic oligarchy, and opaque business practices nurtured by corruption and...
The national and regional energy security of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has become a hot topic of discussion in the EU recently, focusing the attention of experts, policy...
Anticorruption policies have been designed and implemented exclusively at the national level with little consideration of their actual enforcement and effect in individual public organisations. Such a general approach has...
The continuing debate about Bulgaria’s and Romania’s joining the Schengen Area, the accession of Croatia, and the enlargement negotiations with all of the rest of the region of Southeastern Europe...
The policy brief analyses the negative influence of the traditional energy security risks in Central and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region, which is amplified by bad governance and...
In November 2014, the Southeast Leadership for Development and Integrity (SELDI) initiative presented its flagship Regional Anti-Corruption Report Anti-Corruption Reloaded: Assessment of Southeast Europe. Given the major significance of the...
The current policy brief makes an regional overview of the challenge of corruption, analyses the findings from the EU Progress Reports and presents the role of Civil Society Organisations as...
