South East Europe

South East Europe

‘John Doe’ gave Bastian about 2.6 terabytes of data – more than 11 million internal documents – from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca – that contained information on more than 214,000 anonymous companies set up around the world…
This is especially true in regions like South East Europe where corruption has eroded all aspects of society for decades and other democratic institutions besides an active press remain weak…
When the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Macedonia initially started documenting ‘Skopje 2014’, it was searching for an answer to a question that was repeatedly asked by the public without a response: ‘how much the entire project costs’…
Perception Index, however, has been stagnant in Serbia for years. But how do we prove whether the state tackles corruption or not?