Barclay’s Chief Executive Jes Staley will be fined by regulators who also reprimanded him for using the bank’s security apparatus to try to find a whistleblower who raised concerns about the recruitment of one of his friends, Tim Main, to head its group in New York.

He spent two years in jail not for committing a crime, but reporting one – that of torture – and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou’s story of how it happened, turned into a book also launched in Greece, had an audience riveted.

Blueprint has launched it's Working with Whistleblowers Initiative. We are developing the first international guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers in the digital age.

In a historic step toward effective to protect whistleblowers around the globe, the European Commission published its proposed new European Directive on Whistleblowing this week. The initiative comes after two years of intense political debate in Brussels, fueled by input from both political and civil society stakeholders.

After months of disagreement and debate that resembled a political soap opera, French lawmakers finally granted expanded rights to employees who report threats to the public interest.

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.