In 2014, we published the Transparency International EU integrity system study, providing a baseline assessment of the accountability, transparency and integrity mechanisms at 10 EU institutions. We have seen many reforms since. One year into the...
In recent years, scandals involving misappropriation of public funds and money-laundering by foreign politicians, business magnates and their family members have shown how EU is an attractive destination for public money stolen from third countries....
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...
Our full report is available here. Moonlighting a common practice “Moonlighting” – the practice of having a second job – is relatively common among politicians in democracies. This also holds true for the European Parliament. 60% of the...
As more and more countries are seeking to adopt whistleblowing legislation, Transparency International has developed the Best Practice Guide for Whistleblowing Legislation for policy-makers and whistleblowing advocates on how to implement...
Transparency International EU collaborated with the Centre for European Reform on the following report. This press release was originally published on CER’s website. The European Union should start withholding funds from member-states that...
Natural resources can lift millions in the developing world out of poverty. But they can also motivate and enable corruption, particularly given the large and sometimes vast revenues involved, the remoteness of many operations, the secrecy...
In 2014, Transparency International published its first Anti-corruption Assessment of the Climate Investment Funds. The assessment reviewed the Funds’ governance designs and their transparency, accountability, and integrity policies and...
In 2014, Transparency International published its Anti-corruption Assessment of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF’s) Least Developed Countries Fund and the Special Climate Change Fund. This study was conducted in conjunction with...
