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Thursday, 19 February 2009
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After an amendment to the cigarette tax law pushed forth by the Socialist Party of Serbia was recently passed in Parliament, the public has begun asking questions on whether lobbying is practiced in the country, and if so, how and where does it take place. (0)
So far, the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg has passed 17 verdicts against the Serbian state, resulting in somewhat over EUR71,000 being paid out to citizens from the state budget. (0)
In theory, non-government organizations and the media are supposed to be a major driving force in the fight against corruption by directing attention to crooked officials, among other things. In reality, however, Serbian media outlets mostly do nothing more than carry reports on corruption that has already been discovered, while doing nothing in the way of analysis and investigative journalism. (0)
