A year after the Panama Papers revelations, the Paradise Papers leak once again brought light to the murky world of financial and tax secrecy made of opaque corporate structures as well as secret tax arrangements and schemes aimed at lowering large...
The most recent Special Eurobarometer on Corruption, the first since 2013, gives a good overview of the current state of corruption in Europe, through a series of surveys across the EU-28. The Eurobarometer covers wide number of public and business...
Last Friday, December 15, after a 48-hour marathon ‘trilogue’ of negotiations between the three EU institutions a historic deal reinforcing beneficial ownership transparency within the EU has finally been signed. The revisions to the 4th...
Today, the EU has agreed to new anti-money laundering rules which will increase transparency around the ultimate owners of companies according to Transparency International EU. The long-awaited new rules are a breakthrough and a step closer to...
The Polish Parliament recently approved two laws that would enable the government to remove several Supreme Court judges and consequently further subordinate the country’s public institutions to the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS). The move...
Transparency International EU collaborated with the Centre for European Reform on the following report. This press release was originally published on CER’s website. The European Union should start withholding funds from member-states that...
European Parliament report on money-laundering reforms needs urgent action.
In the lead up to International Anti-Corruption Day on the 9th of December 40 NGOs stand alongside anti-corruption activists to call on the EU to deliver strong transparency measures at its upcoming Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD)...
Natural resources can lift millions in the developing world out of poverty. But they can also motivate and enable corruption, particularly given the large and sometimes vast revenues involved, the remoteness of many operations, the secrecy...
