The EU is poised to take a momentous step and adopt a new directive to protect whistleblowers across Europe. This could have a dramatic impact on the capacity and ability of whistleblowing to work in all our interests. We know that protecting those...
Date and time: 6 March 2019, 12:30 – 18:30Venue: The Office, Rue d’ Arlon 80, 1040, Brussels Trillions of euros of corrupt funds are recycled through the global economy annually and less than 1% is being seized and frozen The US has...
Download the report here. Who governs the euro area? The informal nature of the Eurogroup and the limited transparency of its decision making makes this a difficult question to answer. Yet knowing who is in charge is the very prerequisite of...
Readers of a certain age will be familiar with “A Shot in the Dark”, a comedy caper starring Peter Sellars that was part of the Pink Panther series in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It may seem unlikely starting point for a blog about the European...
The EU should not unfreeze the assets of a Tunisian businessman and son-in-law of the former Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Transparency International said today. Following a request from the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
Transparency International EU (TI EU) is an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law (AISBL) based in Brussels (Belgium). We work closely with Transparency International national chapters in over 100 countries worldwide and...
This is the first edition of a new web series from Transparency International EU on tech lobbying in Brussels. To start off, we have analysed the 4,342 lobby meetings the Commission has published in their two digital portfolios. We see three broad...
Authoritarian governments meddling with elections and institutions of liberal democracies has been a major talking point for governments and citizens alike across the globe over the past couple of years. One high-profile case is the investigation...
Sometimes – as with yesterday’s narrow Parliament vote in favour of lobby transparency – you ride your luck as an NGO. And sometimes the stars align so perfectly that you suspect there must be more to it than luck. This Sunday, 9...
