More: Transparency
Indictment of Trump associate threatens UAE lobbying success
This month’s indictment of a billionaire, one-time advisor and close associate of former US President Donald J. Trump, on charges of operating as an...
Health Corruption – Isn’t it talking point for the global health security during CoVID-19?
Corruption is a major obstacle to global peace, prosperity, and human rights. Statistic indicates that every year $1 trillion in bribes are paid and...
Turkey should urgently implement key reforms to boost fight against foreign bribery
Turkey has not taken sufficient steps to address the OECD Working Group on Bribery’s concerns about its implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention or...
From Powder Keg to Power House: Engineering the Western Balkans for Success
Authors: Joseph Vann and Valbona Zeneli
The Biden administration has made clear to Europe that America is back. Nowhere is this clearer than in the...
Disintegrating Big Tech: What Future Holds for the American Technology Giants’?
The United States lawmakers in June 2021 introduced five bills pertaining to Antitrust regulations for the purpose of curbing and curtailing the tremendous power...
American diplomacy’s comeback and Bulgaria’s institutional trench war
Even though many mainstream media outlets have not noticed it, US diplomacy has staged a gran comeback in the Balkans. The Biden administration chose...
Mining and apartheid in South Africa are unfinished business
Corruption doesn’t discriminate. No one is immune to it. Everyone is fair game whether you’re connected to a high-ranking politician or a powerful family...
Rethinking the myth of “Clean politics”
The concept of politics has its roots in the name of Aristotle's classic work, Politiká, which introduced the Greek term politiká (meaning ‘affairs of...
New lobbying rules needed to strengthen trust
Governments need to revamp lobbying rules to make them fit for the 21st century, according to a new OECD report.
Lobbying rules need to reflect...
The billion-dollars closer to disaster: China’s influence in Montenegro
Montenegro is building its first-ever motorway. Due to a huge loan scandal, it’s now become the country’s highway to hell. 40 bridges and 90...