Tucídides - 5/07/2010

In our blog of Transparency have arrived some reports about actions by several organisations of Public Administration related to veterinary medicines in response of the first call we made at the end of blog 1: Tucidides. While the corresponding...

Tucídides - 15/06/2010

795 years ago, John of England signed the Magna Carta, which establish, for the first time, a fundamental constitutional principle, the legality principle, by limiting at the same time the power of the state. The importance of this document has been...

Tucídides - 8/06/2010

Marcus Ulpius Traianus once said that the government of Sextvs Afranivs Bvrrvs and Lucius Annæus Seneca was one of the best and fairer during the imperial period.However, both of them died in strange circumstances. What is the reason of their...

Tucídides - 29/05/2010

As Thucydides did (460-396 BC), Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43 BC) also left classical texts related to the lack of transparency in Public Administration. “In Verrem” (70 BC) he highlighted the corruption of Cayo Verres, who was the...

Tucídides - 24/05/2010

Thucydides wrote his book “The History of the Peloponnesian War” about 2400 years ago.   In the text of this book we read the following three paragraphs:   “The ordinary meaning of words was changed by them as they thought...