14 March 2024, Brussels In 2019, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised an interinstitutional ethics body to overhaul the EU’s integrity system, an oversight mechanism we have been demanding for almost a decade. Over four years have...
You can read our full technical analysis of all reforms here. One year ago, Belgian police uncovered 1.5m euros in cash stashed in, among other places, an MEP’s suitcase. What proceeded to unfold was the biggest corruption scandal ever to have hit...
Title: Consultant for the organisation of Integrity Watch 3.0 project final event Application Closing Date: 23 July 2023 Start and End Date: 3 August 2023 – 1 December 2023 Location: Brussels BACKGROUND Transparency International EU...
Analysis by Transparency International EU (TI EU) shows almost none of the reforms promised in the wake of the most egregious corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament have been implemented. The full analysis is available as a PDF file here....
Last night’s decision by the Parliament’s secretive ruling body, the Bureau, to introduce a 6-month cooling off period for former MEPS before they can lobby their former colleagues amounts to little more than window-dressing. Michiel van...
16th September 2021, Brussels Transparency International EU is today expressing its concern that a proposal for an independent EU ethics body approved this afternoon by the European Parliament lacks the provisions necessary for impactful ethical...
The following letter was sent on 18 May 2021 to Daniel Freund MEP (rapporteur), Rainer Wieland MEP, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz MEP, Gilles Boyer MEP, Leila Chaibi MEP (shadow rapporteurs): Dear Members, We, the undersigned, are civil society...
25 February 2021, Brussels Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global anti-corruption network, has released brand new research on the lobbying efforts of big tech since 2014. The new report, Deep pockets, open doors,...
Report launch and online panel When: Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 CET Where: Zoom, register here Every day, we collectively generate around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data through our online activities, and over the...