Last week, the multi-stakeholder platform accompanying the European Commission’s work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted a paper with wide-ranging recommendations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the EU’s...
An important step towards more transparent EU institutions was taken today, with the European Court of Justice’s ruling that access to documents relating to ongoing trilogues must be given by the EU institutions. In 2015, the former head of the...
On 9 February 2018, Transparency International EU responded to the Monitoring Group consultation on “Strengthening the Governance and Oversight of the International Audit-related Standard-setting Boards in the Public Interest” calling for civil...
The negotiations on EU legislation for public country-by-country reporting (CBCR), have been stalled by the EU Council. However, the recent result of the German Social Democrats’ (SPD) vote in favour of forming a grand coalition with Angela...
As more and more countries are seeking to adopt whistleblowing legislation, Transparency International has developed the Best Practice Guide for Whistleblowing Legislation for policy-makers and whistleblowing advocates on how to implement...
Berlin / Brussels, 5 March, 2018 – Today, a series of investigations published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have detailed how citizenship- and residence-by-investment schemes, commonly referred to as...
Residency and citizenship-by-investment schemes, commonly known as golden visas or passports for sale, offer fast-track citizenship or residency status to foreign, wealthy investors in exchange for large investments. These programmes have been...
TI EU is recruiting a consultant related to the project, which aims to explore the role the EU can play in facilitating responsible asset recovery looking at both the general EU legal and policy framework. It also looks into more targeted...
The investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with uncovering Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections, exposes the risk of foreign influence in the EU. Involving former European heads of governments, secretive...
