The increasingly fractious global geopolitical landscape has severely disrupted the EU integration reform agendas for good governance in the Western Balkans. The lack of a unified European geopolitical will and instruments has allowed Moscow and Beijing to build considerable inroads in the region, cementing state capture networks and emboldening autocrats and kleptocrats to foil anticorruption…
International Political Science Association meeting, held at Pembroke College, University of Oxford from 30th July to the 2nd of August 2024. Emanuel Delia had the opportunity to introduce our new project RESPOND to the members of the Research Committee on Political Finance and Corruption (RC20). During the event we provided a comprehensive overview of RESPOND,…
The conference was headed to Belgium, offering three days of rich academic and social exchange in the beautiful city of Ghent. The European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) has become a must-attend biennial event that furthers the Standing Group’s mission to foster debate about gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics, academia and other areas…
On Tuesday, 2 July 2024, Elisa Orlando, our project team member from Libera, gave a lecture entitled “Anti-mafia and anti-corruption: practices of civic activism” at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana. “Too often, political discourse relegates mafia, corruption and other related crimes to a matter of security, repression and law enforcement.…
The RESPOND project officially launched with a successful Kick-off Meeting at the University of Bologna from May 22 to 24, 2024. The event brought together a wide range of stakeholders, including the project’s Consortium members, Advisory Board, and the general public, who attended both in-person and online. The meeting began with a public session on…