Recent scandals from Panama Papers to the Russian Laundromat and the Paradise Papers have shown how current systemic weaknesses in anti-money laundering (AML) systems can be abused on a large scale. One of the main lessons is that nothing can be...
Our full report is available here. Members of the European Parliament have earned a total of at least €18 million – and possibly as much as €41 million – from side jobs since they were elected in 2014, according to new research by...
This article is based on the transcript of Transparency International EU’s Director Carl Dolan’s speech at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Brussels on 27 June 2018. Thank you Chair, Honourable Members, I would like to...
Last night the European Parliament’s Bureau voted down proposals to introduce basic financial accountability mechanisms to MEPs’ General Expenditure Allowance (GEA). The GEA is meant for office and representation expenses related to...
This week’s Euro Summit was long set to negotiate major reforms for the euro, including a possible European Monetary Fund and euro area budget.
In this open letter, we ask Heads of State and Government to focus on the democratic legitimacy of...
Far from seeing a step-change in the EU’s efforts to fight fraud and corruption in the intervening seven years, from the point of view of anti-corruption policy, this Commission is doing nothing new and considerably less than the last Commission.
In 2014 the European Commission committed itself to take action against corruption by publishing the first EU Anti-Corruption report. However, only two years later the Commission scrapped the report in an exchange of letters between Commissioner...
One of Europe’s greatest and perhaps least publicised achievements is the use of Structural and Social funds to help provide much needed investment in European regions. From Galway to Varna the EU has provided funds which have helped build...
Even though the importance of financial transparency is widely recognized, it seems unlikely that the German grand coalition would push public country-by-country reporting forward in the Council of the European Union, after Transparency...
