Love is not necessarily in the air in Brussels these days! Particularly not after the 2014 Annual Report publication of the EU’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) yesterday – highlighting last year’s developments and achievements in preventing...
The reliably leaky Commission machine is at it again, this time widely trailing its plans to tackle tax avoidance in the EU to the Brussels press and MEPs. You can read the entire text here. Our main interest in all of this is the Commission’s...
On 20 May the European Parliament gave its final approval for the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which requires the creation of centralised registers of beneficial owners – the real persons who have ultimate control – of a company...
On May 9-10th we attended the Dataharvest conference here in Brussels, an annual conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, that brought together just under 300 data coders and journalists (investigative or otherwise) and held 75 different workshops...
Two days before the Eastern Partnership Summit, the civil society organised a conference in Riga to discuss Georgia’s progress of implementation of the Association Agenda with the European Union so far. The event was organised by the Georgian...
Download Lobbying of the European Union (EU) needs to become more transparent and open to public scrutiny. EU policy-makers should therefore collect and disclose comprehensive information on who influences whom in the European Union EU...
Political participation is a fundamental element in mature democratic systems, and governments should ensure that decisions are taken in the interests of citizens. Unfortunately, money and inside contacts often seem to be necessary to open the doors...
08:30 – 09:30 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE 09:30 – 10:00 OPENING Chair: Mr. Sergejus Muravjovas, Board Member of Transparency InternationalProfessor Kevin Morgan, special adviser to Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Creţu Mr. Miklos...
On 28 April the deadline expired for all organisations on the EU Transparency Register to perform an update of their registration. Organisations that did not update were suspended and no longer appear in the public database of the Transparency...
