Mexico

Mexico gets its first leftist leader in decades

Veteran politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins after promising to tackle corruption and the drug cartels.

02/07/2018

Russia

Kaliningrad's World Cup facelift came at a price

Residents were forced off properties and protestors bullied off properties ahead of World Cup

22/06/2018

Spain

Spanish King's brother-in-law chooses to do time in women's prison

The disgraced brother-in-law of King Felipe VII has opted for a small prison outside the city of Avila to serve out his sentence, where he will be the only male inmate.

18/06/2018

Romania

Thousands rally in Romania capital in corruption protest

The government supporters are angry at the manner in which corruption is being investigated

10/06/2018

Romania

Ex- Romanian minister brings gold bars to pay €1 million bail

Prosecuted ex-finance minister decides to pay part of his 1 million EUR bail in bullion.

04/06/2018

World News

"There’s a target on my back"

Bill Browder, the prominent Putin critic briefly arrested in Spain this week, says he will continue his mission to hold corrupt politicians accountable – no matter the risks.

01/06/2018

Romania

European Personality of the Year: Florin Badita, founder of Corruption

At just 30 years' old, Florin Badita has founded a movement that has single-handedly exposed endemic corruption in Romanian political life. Euronews' Sophie Claudet interviewed him to find out more.

31/05/2018

Greece

Maria Efimova speaks out at whistleblower conference

Maria Efimova was Daphne Caruana Galizia's source. The murdered reporter used the Panama Papers to expose alleged links to offshore tax havens of Malta’s leadership, including the island’s Prime Minister

30/05/2018

World

Malta is a captured state, say sons of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Andrew and Matthew Caruana Galizia, say the story behind their mother’s assassination is that of a small Mediterranean Island state that has been taken over by outside interests.

29/05/2018

Spain

Spanish PM threatened by no confidence vote

Spanish opposition parties threaten Mariano Rajoy with a no-confidence vote.

25/05/2018

Hungary

Hungary: The criticisms, the responses and some facts

An insight into nine of the battlefields on which Viktor Orbán and the European Union are facing off.

24/05/2018

Malaysia

Malaysian police seize luxury goods from properties linked to ex-PM

Police said the raids were in connection with investigations into the 1MDB fund

18/05/2018

China

China: former communist party boss Sun Zhengcai jailed for life

A Chinese court has sentenced Sun Zhengcai, the former Communist Party boss of the southwestern city of Chongqing, to life in prison for corruption, state media said on Tuesday.

08/05/2018

Turkey

Erdogan pursues EU accession at manifesto unveiling

EU accession, counter-terrorism and the economy lay at the heart of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s manifesto launch ahead of Turkey’s general election on June 24.

06/05/2018

Slovakia

Slovakian protesters call for early elections

Thousands gathered in the Slovakian capital Bratislava on Friday for anti-government protests following the murders of an investigative reporter and his fiancee.

05/05/2018

France

Report reveals ‘strong suspicion’ of corruption between Council of Europe, Azerbaijan

An investigation into alleged corruption in the Council of Europe has revealed there is “strong suspicion” that current and former members have “engaged in activity of a corruptive nature” amid efforts by Azerbaijan to whitewash its human rights record.

23/04/2018

Slovakia

Slovakia police chief steps down as protests persist

Slovakia’s national police chief has resigned amid public pressure following the assassination of a journalist in February who was investigating alleged government corruption.

18/04/2018

Malta

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family ‘fear they'll never know’ who ordered murder

The family of a murdered Malta journalist fear they will never find out who ordered her killing, it has emerged.

17/04/2018

Malta

Europe's journalists continue work of murdered Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia

Today is six months since Malta investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb just metres from her home. A group of investigative journalists from across Europe have used the anniversary to announce they intend to continue her work.

16/04/2018

Slovakia

Thousands of Slovaks take to the streets protesting over corruption. There have been regular demonstrations since the murder of a journalist in February

The killing of Jan Kuciak and his fiance sparked a political crisis that brought down the prime minister

16/04/2018