A former anti-money laundering investigator on Malta, Jonathan Ferris, who says he has knowledge of massive wrongdoing, will sue to get whistleblower protection he said was deliberately blocked by the government with a scandal reaching Prime Minister's Joseph Muscat's office, The Times of Malta said.

The murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, who was looking into fraud tied to the government and organized crime led Prime Minister Robert Fico to step down, but tens of thousands protesters in the streets of the capital Bratislava want the entire coalition dissolved.

Greece’s anti-money laundering authority has reportedly recommended that the former Chairman of Piraeus Bank, one of the country’s big four, face charges over the sale of five properties it said could be tied to his family.

Blueprint's new report series on whistleblower protection in Europe shows that protections are still low across EU countries. Whistleblowers need stronger, more comprehensive laws - and those laws need to work in practice.

The Council of Europe and its Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) said in a pair of reports that Greece needs more openness in how political parties are funded – from taxpayer subsidies – and more needs to be done to prevent corruption by lawmakers and judges.

Greece is gripped by a story the Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Novartis paid 10 rivals to the ruling party as much as 50 million euros over a decade to fix prices and control the flu shot market.

European Union officials fear the murder of a Slovak journalist, coming after the recent killing of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist, could create a chilling effect on reporters and target democracy.

Blueprint’s Head of Technical & Security Peter Tonoli provided a technical perspective on the challenges that journalists face in protecting their whistleblowers at the Sydney launch of a ground-breaking UNESCO report.

A global coalition of NGOs and encryption experts is calling on governments of the "Five Eyes" nations (USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) to defend the use of strong encryption by private citizens.

Across nations of Africa, it has long been recognised that widespread corruption in many countries has been a major contributing factor in inequality and a barrier to progress.

Blueprint for Free Speech applauds the release of whistleblower and Blueprint Prize recipient Chelsea Manning on 17 May 2017. Chelsea won the Blueprint Enduring Impact Whistleblowing Prize in 2016.

Chelsea Manning, the winner of the 2016 Blueprint for Free Speech Enduring Impact Award, this week received a commutation of her 35-year sentence from outgoing US President Barack Obama.