Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Atlas Freedom Dinner in Washington, D.C. on November 9th at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.
Two decades ago, the scar that cut the world in half was healed, and those suffering under the slavery of communism joined hands with their allies [...]

Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigned over the weekend, shocking the Balkan country and the European Union.  Since being elected in 2003, Sanader and his cronies have, according to Jeffrey Kuhner of the Washington Times, “Dismantled democratic institutions…controlled much of the media…intimidated or murdered opposition journalists…and turned Croatia into a gangster state.” Atlas’s friends at [...]

We’ve written about the Adriatic Institute’s battle against Croatian corruption in the past. It now seems that the institute has caught the ear of the International media. BBC News  spoke to Natasha Srodc in this piece, discussing the threats of violence and organized crime in the country.
In addition, this article, A Balkan state in balk, [...]

The Adriatic Institute shared a story with us about protests which took place this past weekend in Croatia. Using the online social site, Facebook, thousands of Croatia’s youth organized rallies in the cities of Zagreb, Rijeka and Split. The young people rallied against the arrest of a young man who created a Facebook group, speaking [...]

A couple weeks ago, we reported on the car bombing that killed two investigative journalists, Ivo Pukanic and Niko Franjic, in Zagreb, Croatia. Stay updated on the fall-out via this Washington Times commentary by Jeffrey Kuhner. He quotes our friends at the Adriatic Institute:
According to the Adriatic Institute (AI), Croatia’s finest independent think tank, government [...]

Just the other day we discussed Monica Macovei’s work fighting corruption in Romania and Macedonia. Yesterday the Adriatic Institute had to take up that mantle yet again, A car bomb in Zagreb killed two investigative journalists, Ivo Pukanic and Niko Franjic. Mr Pukanic was the publisher of the Croatian political magazine, Nacional.
Below, read Natasha and [...]

Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting with Ms. Monica Macovei, who was responsible for a great deal of the corruption reforms which took place in Romania pre-EU accession. She is now acting as a consultant in Macedonia to help curb corruption there as well. Monica has quite a battle ahead of her as corruption [...]

In 2008, The World Bank named Croatia “Europe’s Top Reformer for the Year”. Spurred by this controversial decision, and with knowledge of the high levels of corruption in Croatian government, The Adriatic Institute conducted a study which accuses the World Bank’s Doing Business Report as flawed in methodology and information gathering.
After an intensive and thorough [...]

June 13, 2008, Zagreb
Adriatic Institute announces CROATIA’S 2008 TAX FREEDOM DAY
Croatia’s Tax Freedom Day - Dan Porezne Slobode calculated by The Adriatic Institute falls on June 13, 2008, a day later when compared to last year’s findings. On Friday, June 13, 2008, Croatia’s workers stopped working for the Minister of Finance and [...]