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Political integrity

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One out of five paid political ads on Facebook targeted a specific group of people

november 20, 2020

Political parties and their campaign leaders showed at least 532 different paid advertisements on Facebook during the last month of the political campaign. On...
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Participatory budgeting

Every fourth municipality in Lithuania invites its residents to decide how to spend a part of their municipalities budget

november 17, 2020

Every fourth municipality (15 out of 60) is implementing participatory budgeting: every eighth (8  out of 60) municipality invites its residents to decide on ...
Business integrity

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Anti-money laundering in Lithuanian real estate is not effective enough

october 23, 2020

Institutions responsible for the prevention of money laundering do not have sufficient capacity and information regarding the scale of the issue to ensure eff...
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Lithuania should improve its implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention

october 13, 2020

According to a study by “Transparency International”, Lithuania is ranked among countries with limited implementation of international commitments and was rat...
Political integrity

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Political parties in parliamentary elections pledge to publish whom they meet and to open up more data

october 07, 2020

Two out of three (12 out of 17 in total) parties running in the elections pledge to publish meetings with interest groups, as per the survey on anti-corruptio...
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Media transparency

One out of ten media outlets is owned by politicians or state officials

september 23, 2020

In 2019, one out of ten media outlets (101) in Lithuania was owned by 44 politicians, state officials and their spouses. According to the newly updated media ...
Political integrity

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In the current parliament, 100 MPS declared almost 4 thousand meetings with interest groups representatives

september 08, 2020

Since the beginning of this parliamentary term, two thirds of parliamentarians (100 out of 154) published at least one meeting with interest groups and regist...
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11th Transparency School held virtually

august 16, 2020

This week, from the 17th to the 22nd of August, 130 youth leaders from more than 60 countries around the world will participate in the 11th edition of Transpa...