There is no country in the world that is totally immune to corruption. The tragedy lies, however, in the fact that in the SEE region, i.e. in out "transition" states, the corruption has turned into an epydemics.

It is everywhere. I couldn't tell which is more serious and dangerous: the corruption in politics, which is reflected strongly on the development of a state, therefore on the prosperity of its citizens; or is it more terrifying that the citizens themselves actully accept the corruption as something ordinary and use it as a powerful tool on the quest for personal prosperity. Or is the corruption of moral and ethical values that is, actually, the most serious? To put it briefly, corruption is a part of our daily lives nowadays.

Transparency International defines corruption as an abuse of acquired power and authority for personal gains. As such, the corruption leads to distortion of all rules of fair competition and, if applied often, to waste of resources, alredy scarce in the developing countries. Tha only contributes to the general disregard for the basic needs of the population and increase of wide-spread poverty. Read more.

12.06.2008 The Alter Art youth organization from Travnik faced total shut-down of its activities, after it got notice from the Travnik Municipal Cultural Centre to leave the premises of the Internet Club in 10 days time. The Internet Club is the only source of financing for Alter Art`s activities.

09.08.2005 The existing legal framework in Croatia allows the local self-government units to dispose of their own budgets independently, so that financing of the work of certain political parties from the municipal budgets is not illegal, notes TI Croatia's Zorislav Antun Petrovic in this opinion article.

30.03.2007 For the second year in the row IDRA (Institute for Development Research and Alternatives) prepared and published the Corruption Survey report. On 28th of March, the results of the survey were presented in a conference organized by Rule of Law/USAID project at Sheraton Hotel.