The European Commission is conducting a fitness check of the EU framework on public reporting by companies, which aims to assess whether it is still fit for purpose. The fitness check includes a recently published public consultation, which allows...
Recent scandals from Panama Papers to the Russian Laundromat and the Paradise Papers have shown how current systemic weaknesses in anti-money laundering (AML) systems can be abused on a large scale. One of the main lessons is that nothing can be...
In 2014 the European Commission committed itself to take action against corruption by publishing the first EU Anti-Corruption report. However, only two years later the Commission scrapped the report in an exchange of letters between Commissioner...