Lithuania has either partial or no laws to protect whistleblowers on corruption, reads a new report by the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International.
“In Lithuania, whistleblowers still do not only risk losing their jobs, but also being subjected to psychological pressure and threats to their family members,” the Lithuanian bureau of the organisation said in a press release on Wednesday.
Transparency International examined the protection situation in the European Union’s (EU) 27 member-states.
According to the report, Lithuania along with Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain have no or “very limited” provisions to protect whistleblowers.
Sixteen EU member-states, including France, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, have “partial provisions”.
Only Luxembourg, Romania, Slovenia and the UK have laws that include “comprehensive or near comprehensive” procedures for whistleblowers.
Source: the Lithuania Tribune - BNS