By Laure Brillaud and Maíra Martini Recent money laundering scandals have shown how indispensable European banks and other intermediaries have been in helping – either knowingly or negligently – design and run dodgy schemes. This casts serious...
Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global movement against corruption, has called on Member States to redouble their efforts to find a way forward on the issue of corporate tax transparency, following the latest...
Three years have passed since the European Commission published a legislative proposal for mandatory tax transparency for multinational companies in the EU, called Public Country by Country Reporting[1]. This week, Ministers from EU Member States...
Brussels is in the middle of a chaotic Commissioner-designate hearing season and the trials and tribulations of these past few weeks only reconfirm the urgent need for an independent EU ethics body. Two candidates have already been rejected; the...
The Eurogroup agreed on a number of steps to increase its transparency, but the news was quietly published on the website and passed largely unnoticed. Transparency International EU welcomes the reform steps agreed by the Eurogroup on 20 September,...
The newly elected MEPs of the UK Brexit Party* and the Italian party Lega have the highest combined outside earnings of any national party delegations in the European Parliament, according to an analysis by Transparency International EU (TI EU)....
Transparency International EU, the Brussels office of the global movement against corruption, has welcomed the EU Ambassadors’ endorsement of Ms. Laura Kösevi as Chief European Public Prosecutor. Kövesi is the former head of Romania’s...
By Laure Brillaud and Maíra Martini On 24 July, the European Commission (EC) released a communication addressed to the European Parliament and the Council towards better implementation of current European anti-money laundering (AML) rules. In a...
Transparency International is pleased to welcome Michiel van Hulten as the Director of its EU office in Brussels. Michiel brings over 20 years’ experience of EU policy, campaigns and communications to the team and will be leading the team’s...
