Last night’s decision by the Parliament’s secretive ruling body, the Bureau, to introduce a 6-month cooling off period for former MEPS before they can lobby their former colleagues amounts to little more than window-dressing. Michiel van...
16th September 2021, Brussels Transparency International EU is today expressing its concern that a proposal for an independent EU ethics body approved this afternoon by the European Parliament lacks the provisions necessary for impactful ethical...
The following letter was sent on 18 May 2021 to Daniel Freund MEP (rapporteur), Rainer Wieland MEP, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz MEP, Gilles Boyer MEP, Leila Chaibi MEP (shadow rapporteurs): Dear Members, We, the undersigned, are civil society...
25 February 2021, Brussels Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global anti-corruption network, has released brand new research on the lobbying efforts of big tech since 2014. The new report, Deep pockets, open doors,...
Report launch and online panel When: Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 CET Where: Zoom, register here Every day, we collectively generate around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data through our online activities, and over the...
Transparency International EU welcomes the outcome of a European Ombudsman inquiry, which has found that European Banking Authority (EBA) should not have allowed its former Executive Director, Adam Farkas, to become the head of a large financial...
WHEN: 5th November, 10:30 – 14:00 (including lunch) WHERE: Room A5E-1, European Parliament, Brussels During the 2019 European elections, over 600 candidates signed Transparency International’s pledge to renew the EU’s values and...
The investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with uncovering Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections, exposes the risk of foreign influence in the EU. Involving former European heads of governments, secretive...
Today, February 1st, the new code of conduct for Commissioners comes into force. The new code of conduct is seen as a direct reply by the Commission to the scandals of former Commission President Barroso’s move to Goldman Sachs and former...
