EVENT: Debugging Democracy: open data for political integrity in Europe

Author
Raphaël Kergueno
Date
17 November, 2020
Type
Event
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26 November 13:00 – 15:00 CET, on Zoom 

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Political corruption subverts democracy and undermines people’s trust in government. Transparency is key to ensure that policymakers do not give preferential treatment to specific interests, distorting policies, institutions, and rules of procedure to cater to the needs of the few instead of the many. 

From conflicts of interests of elected officials to undue influence by lobbyists and foreign interference in political finance, the consequences of political corruption can be dire. Each scandal fuelling the perception of widespread corruption within our democratic institutions. With the COVID crisis reinforcing pre-existing deficiencies in enforcing political integrity, Transparency International has developed a series of online tools designed to empower citizens, civil society, journalists and national authorities to detection and prevention of political corruption in eight EU Member States.

Together with our national European chapters, we analysed the resulting 18 datasets on lobbying, financial interests and political finance. Discover our report which highlights severe shortcomings in ethics regimes of France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain as well as in the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Register here to debug democracy.

13:00 -13:10 

Opening Remarks

Lousewies van der Laan, Executive Director, Transparency International Netherlands 

13:10 -13:25 

Report launch

DEBUGGING DEMOCRACY: OPEN DATA FOR POLITICAL INTEGRITY IN EUROPE

Moderator: Jon VrushiResearch coordinator, Transparency International Secretariat 

Ieva DunčikaitėProject leader, Transparency International Lithuania 

Raphaël Kergueno, Policy officer EU Integrity, Transparency International EU 

13:25 -13:35 

Questions and Answers  

13:3514:30 

Panel discussion

PREVENTING POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN THE EU 

Moderator: Helen Turek, Regional Lead, Open Government Partnership 

Daniel Freund, Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament 

Marie Lintzer, Head of International Partnerships, High-Authority for Transparency in Public Life, France 

Susanna Ferro, Communications officer, Transparency International Italy 

14:3014:50 

Questions and Answers 

14:50 – 15:00

 Closing Remarks

Transparency International EU 

This project is cofunded by the European Commission and the Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE), with a contribution by the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF). Neither the European Union institutions and bodies nor any person acting on their behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.

This project is funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police