The European Parliament will debate EU golden visas on October 22. Here are five questions we would ask the Justice Commissioner, if we were there. During tomorrow’s plenary session, the Members of the European Parliament “will quiz” the...
The first rule of law report published today by the European Commission echoes Transparency International EU’s concerns over ineffective rule of law and anticorruption measures in place in many EU Member States, and underpins calls for a robust...
At the end of June, we launched a new feature on EU Integrity Watch, a tab that tracks lobby meetings with Members of the European Parliament. Three months later, we are here with an update, so let’s see what progress has been made. 10,000...
According to TechJury, an average person in 2020 spends 2 hours and 24 minutes per day on social media. That’s around 72 hours per month. We take in content from our loved ones, from influencers, from companies wanting to sell us new products, but...
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...
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...
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...
