Last October, together with Global Witness, Transparency International presented evidence secretive ‘golden visa’ programmes. Our joint report, European Getaway – Inside the Murky World of Golden Visas, explained how they have opened the...
Transparency International EU (TI EU) is an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law (AISBL) based in Brussels (Belgium). We work closely with Transparency International national chapters in over 100 countries worldwide and...
The European Parliament and EU Council have agreed a pathbreaking piece of legislation that will help protect whistleblowers around Europe. The political agreement was reached in tough negotiations in the early hours of this morning, and is the...
Transparency International urges EU Member States not to bow to pressure from named countries to reject the EU’s first independent anti-money laundering blacklist when they meet in Brussels this Thursday. The list of 23 blacklisted jurisdictions...
The EU is poised to take a momentous step and adopt a new directive to protect whistleblowers across Europe. This could have a dramatic impact on the capacity and ability of whistleblowing to work in all our interests. We know that protecting those...
Date and time: 6 March 2019, 12:30 – 18:30Venue: The Office, Rue d’ Arlon 80, 1040, Brussels Trillions of euros of corrupt funds are recycled through the global economy annually and less than 1% is being seized and frozen The US has...
Today, Transparency International EU released a comprehensive report on the Eurogroup. The report “Vanishing Act: the Eurogroup’s accountability” finds the institution evades proper accountability even while its decisions profoundly impact the...
Download the report here. Who governs the euro area? The informal nature of the Eurogroup and the limited transparency of its decision making makes this a difficult question to answer. Yet knowing who is in charge is the very prerequisite of...
Brussels, 31 January 2019 – Today, the European Parliament voted in favour of MEPs publishing their meetings with lobbyists. This is the first mandatory lobby transparency measure to apply to EU parliamentarians and a huge step forward for...
