After the scrapping of the EU Anti-Corruption Report this year, the European Semester, the EU’s annual process of macroeconomic surveillance of member states, was supposed to step in as its replacement and therefore the main vehicle for achieving...
Today, the decision by 20 EU Member States to create a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is a breakthrough in the EU’s efforts to fight corruption, according to Transparency International EU, the anti-corruption NGO. The EPPO, which...
The corners of this continent might be leaving the EU’s doors open to criminals and the corrupt who wish to escape justice. Golden visas and the selling of EU citizenship, as the Guardian recently uncovered, points to several cases where these...
It’s been two years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). On September 25, 2015 the EU signed on to these aspirational international development targets to create a better, more equal and sustainable future. The SDGs...
Politico have just published a story which alleges that Markus Ferber, a Member of the European Parliament, may have breached Parliamentary ethics rules. The story claims that Ferber, who was the lead negotiator for the Markets in Financial...
It’s September and back to school for the European Commission, which has come out with some very welcome changes to how the ethics around the institution are governed. After former President Barroso’s move to Goldman Sachs,...
Today, OpenBudgets officially launches its fiscal transparency platform. It offers a toolbox to everyone who wants to upload, visualise and analyse fiscal data. From easy to use visualisations and high level analytics to fun games and accessible...
Corrupt cash, Scottish shell companies, Scandinavian banks, and bribery in Strasbourg. The latest Laundromat revelations that the Azerbaijani government has been involved in a massive corruption scheme is hardly a shock after so many pan-European...
Last week, we took part in the Open Data for Tax Justice design sprint bringing together campaigners, policy experts and open data specialists to discuss the first stages of creating a pilot database for country-by-country reporting (CBCR) data....
