Last night’s decision by the Parliament’s secretive ruling body, the Bureau, to introduce a 6-month cooling off period for former MEPS before they can lobby their former colleagues amounts to little more than window-dressing. Michiel van...
Last week it was revealed that Henrik Hololei, Director-General of the European Commission’s DG MOVE, had enjoyed nine free business class trips on Qatar Airways between 2015 and 2021. Six of these free flights occurred while the EU was...
02 March 2023 Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global anti-corruption movement, is pleased to announce that Ms. Cesira D’Aniello will be joining its Executive Board as of 7 June 2023. Ms. D’Aniello brings...
On behalf of Transparency International EU and CiFAR, we would like to invite you to our in-person conference entitled: Reforming the EU Asset Recovery and Sanctions Framework 7th March 09:00-12:30 New venue: Mona Lisa room,...
Disclaimer Since the publication of this research, many MEPs have updated their personal pages on the European Parliament website, either to add new third-party event declarations, or to remove ones previously submitted, for instance on the...
Monday 6 February President Putin signs a law according to which the tax returns and asset declarations of Russian MPs and senators will no longer be published online (technically they will be published “without private data attached”, ie. in...
Transparency International EU has published an initial assessment of the proposed reform measures that will be presented to the Conference of Presidents by President Metsola in the wake of the Qatargate scandal. It is available for download via...
Transparency International EU, the Brussels office of the global anti-corruption movement, has called for an independent inquiry into the European Commission’s handling of its relations with Qatar and other issues brought to light by the...
Information discovered online (1, 2. – screenshots below) by Transparency International EU shows that the newly appointed Secretary-General of the European Parliament and former Head of Cabinet to President Metsola, Mr. Chiocchetti, had at...