Algeria’s economy is on its knees and the electorate is fed up of paying obeisance to an elderly demagogue, writes Zaki Laidi

The United Nations has given us another finger-wagging over our ratio of legislation to policing capacity and intent — as if it was needed. It confirmed again that our enthusiasm for making laws, but not enforcing them, is a well-established principle in our careless culture and public life.

No company alleged to have bribed foreign officials prosecuted

The acting Garda commissioner will today admit that gardaí “overlooked” revisiting or upgrading a number of investigations into suspicious deaths which has resulted in the homicide data debacle.

Ireland has been ranked as the 19th least corrupt country in the world in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The divide is between those who want a wrongdoing addressed once highlighted and those who want it to remain buried, says Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

One in five employees in the State who report wrongdoing at work has suffered as a result, according to a survey by the anti-corruption body Transparency International.

David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".

Kyran Fitzgerald tracks the rise and rise of a trillion-dollar global industry designed to avoid taxes, protect the wealth, and much worse.

Ireland has done little or nothing to stop business figures bribing officials, a damning international report has found.

Italian police seized assets worth more than €1.6bn from five Sicilian siblings suspected of links to the island’s Cosa Nostra mafia, in one of the biggest ever such operations.

Transparency International, the influential watchdog for public and corporate governance, has added fuel to the political row surrounding the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation by calling on the Government to scrap its current investigation, claiming the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to undermine Ireland’s reputation abroad.

Michael Lowry has defended passing a note to the Taoiseach Enda Kenny recommending his former adviser to a State Board. The note said the female advisor "wasn't bad looking".

Ireland’s image as being an honest country in which to do business has improved for the second year in a row, according to an index of corruption perceptions published by Transparency International.

Laws aimed at helping citizens track the influence that lobbyists have on government policy have been watered down significantly from what was initially planned, according to anti-corruption campaigners.

There is growing concern about corruption in Ireland especially about elected politicians, Europe’s foremost human rights authority has warned.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

Some of Ukraine’s top officials have ended up in a wheelie bin after being targeted by far-right groups.

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A judicial inquiry is taking place at a state hospital in Athens where a 67-year-old heart patient died after allegedly being denied timely surgery by a doctor seeking a bribe.

A judicial inquiry is taking place at a state hospital in Athens where a 67-year-old heart patient died after allegedly being denied timely surgery by a doctor seeking a bribe.

Reality check on fracking

Long-awaited measures to regulate the lobbying of government and senior civil servants has been met with a mixed reaction.

The centre has held in Europe with the pro-EU parties taking most of the seats, says Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

I HAVE a friend who went to a posh Munster boarding school back in the 1970s. When the lights went out every night in the dorm the competition would always begin with the words: "My father has two Zetors."

Afghans flocked to polling stations nationwide today, defying a threat of violence by the Taliban, to cast their votes in what promises to be the nation’s first democratic transfer of power.

Corruption claims have dogged preparations for the Sochi Winter Olympics, writes Nataliya Vasilyeva

An interactive website launched by Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny paints a vivid picture of suspected cost overruns and conflicts of interest at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Transparency International has written to the Garda Commissioner suggesting senior management in the force may be in breach of the law over how whistleblowers have been treated.

A leading Irish academic has moved from Pana to Astana to train future politicians and public servants in one of the world’s most corrupt countries.

THE funding of political parties has long been a closely guarded secret. However, the corruption and abuse of power this has engendered over the years has become an all too familiar story.

Czech prosecutors have charged seven people in a multi-pronged scandal involving the prime minister’s aide, his estranged wife, the military, former politicians and kilograms of gold.

Tax deals designed to lure multinationals and laws designed to minimise tax liabilities are putting the spotlight on lobbyists, writes Europe Correspondent, Ann Cahill

A Europol report last week claimed that 380 soccer games in Europe and 680 worldwide were ‘suspicious’. Match-fixing has tainted the world’s most popular sport, drawn in major crime gangs, and ruined players’ lives, writes Sheila Norman-Culp

A new survey shows that the countries worst hit by the European financial crisis are also seen as among the most corrupt in the European Union, an international watchdog group said today.

The Taoiseach’s decision to share a Wall Street platform with businessman Denis O’Brien has done Ireland’s reputation “no favours”, an anti-corruption campaign group has said.

The government is dragging its heels on reforms that will reduce corruption here according to a new report.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore announced an additional €3m in life-saving assistance to Somalia during a visit to the capital, Mogadishu today.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has issued an ambitious list of government reforms that orders his ministries, prosecutors and judiciary to fight bribery, nepotism and cronyism.

Ireland needs to tackle the fundamental governance gaps that will continue to allow for corruption unless addressed, according to the latest report from Transparency International.

The Mahon Report fallout claimed its first Fine Gael casualty after a party councillor resigned last night.