Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Syrian President Bashar al–Assad, is the latest kleptocrat brought to justice in Europe. Last month a French Court found him guilty of money laundering and embezzling public funds and sentenced him to...
A new update to Transparency International EU’s Integrity Watch platform has revealed that only around 37% of Members of the European Parliament have published lobby meetings online since the start of this legislature, despite the European...
Fighting kleptocrats & dirty money: high time for the EU to act Application deadline: Friday 7 August 2020 (NB this is a revised, expanded call for tenders which replaces the call issued on 11 June, which was for script-writing only.) ...
Issued by Whistleblowing International Network Brussels/Glasgow 23 June 2020 In April 2019, the European Parliament adopted a game-changing Directive designed to protect whistleblowers across Europe. Once the Council of the European Union and the...
Issued by TI Czech Republic Prague, 19 June 2020 – A resolution passed today in the European Parliament regarding Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s ongoing conflict of interest. It is a welcome further recognition of misuse of public funds by...
To promote sustainability across the EU, it’s crucial that large corporations are transparent about their social and environmental impacts. This is especially true in the era of COVID-19: European governments need to be able ensure that...
Following the presentation of the Green Deal last December, the EU Commission initiated the reform of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) with the objective to improve quality, consistency, comparability, as well as accessibility of...
Coronavirus and tax avoidance Europe is experiencing its greatest healthcare and economic crisis since World War II. The current crisis has put additional strain on underfunded healthcare and social welfare systems and has exposed the true cost of...
Transparency International EU welcomes the outcome of a European Ombudsman inquiry, which has found that European Banking Authority (EBA) should not have allowed its former Executive Director, Adam Farkas, to become the head of a large financial...
