14 March 2024, Brussels In 2019, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised an interinstitutional ethics body to overhaul the EU’s integrity system, an oversight mechanism we have been demanding for almost a decade. Over four years have...
The European Parliament’s approval of the EU Asset Recovery Directive marks a turning point in the fight to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of criminals, and return them to support victims of corruption. This builds on the EU’s new Directive on...
27 February 2024, Brussels The EU Parliament has today taken the EU one step closer to safeguarding journalists and media freedom in voting to support the EU Anti-SLAPPs Directive. SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) are...
23 February 2024, Brussels The revelations that German MEP Markus Pieper has been appointed to the newly-created job of EU SME Envoy—despite other candidates scoring higher on the European Commission’s own assessments—raises serious...
12 December 2023, Brussels Transparency International EU (TI EU) warns that the Defence of Democracy Package announced by the European Commission today will not bring the level of transparency needed to counter malign influence in EU democracies. In...
The following complaint was sent on 28 June 2023 by Transparency International EU and the undersigned organisations. Read it in full here. Corporate Europe Observatory, Transparency International EU, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl have...
8 June 2023, Brussels The EU ethics body proposed by the European Commission today would not be able to clean up the mess left by Qatargate. In 2019, European Commission President von der Leyen said: “If Europeans are to have faith in our Union,...
Analysis by Transparency International EU (TI EU) shows almost none of the reforms promised in the wake of the most egregious corruption scandal to hit the European Parliament have been implemented. The full analysis is available as a PDF file here....
The 2020 Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) released today by Transparency International Defence and Security shows that EU member states are exposed to a moderate risk of corruption in their defence and security governance. Despite an overall...