Need for legislative solution to golden visa programmes in the EU remains The government of Cyprus has announced that it will abolish its controversial citizenship–by-investment scheme as of 1 November 2020. The decision follows multiple...
The first rule of law report published today by the European Commission echoes Transparency International EU’s concerns over ineffective rule of law and anticorruption measures in place in many EU Member States, and underpins calls for a robust...
International civil society welcomes the recent Memorandum of Understanding signed between Switzerland and Uzbekistan to return USD 131 million of confiscated assets but counsel caution We welcome recent developments by the Swiss government to...
At the end of June, we launched a new feature on EU Integrity Watch, a tab that tracks lobby meetings with Members of the European Parliament. Three months later, we are here with an update, so let’s see what progress has been made. 10,000...
The FinCEN files, released yesterday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and BuzzFeed News, highlight the need for better anti-money laundering measures in the European Union in the form of an independent...
According to TechJury, an average person in 2020 spends 2 hours and 24 minutes per day on social media. That’s around 72 hours per month. We take in content from our loved ones, from influencers, from companies wanting to sell us new products, but...
When: 13 October, 11:00-12:30 CETWhere: Online What do Teodorin Obiang, Gulnara Karimova, Muammar Gaddafi, Rifaat al-Assad, and Hosni Mubarak have in common? These current and former public figures are all alleged to have stolen huge sums of...
On 5-24 October 2020, the annual European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) will virtually bring together local and national authorities, EU representatives, civil society, academia and the private sector to foster citizen participation in cohesion...
Transparency International EU (TI EU) and 14 TI national EU chapters[1] have called on the European Commission to strengthen the fight against money laundering in the light of the Covid-19 crisis and the recent corruption and money laundering...
