Title: Consultant for the organisation of Integrity Watch 3.0 project final event Application Closing Date: 23 July 2023 Start and End Date: 3 August 2023 – 1 December 2023 Location: Brussels BACKGROUND Transparency International EU...
Each year in the EU, over 250,000 public authorities spend roughly 2 trillion euros buying goods and services for public projects. From schools and hospitals to power plants and dams, this means big budgets and complex plans, providing opportunities...
Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the European Parliament is not required to provide access to documents on how MEPs spend their various allowances, which was requested by a consortium of investigative journalists from the...
Conference room, Rue d’Edimbourg 26, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels, 29 January 2018. Register here or in the form below. The main goal of the DIGIWHIST is the systematic collection, structuring, analysis, and broad dissemination of information on...
Last week, we took part in the Open Data for Tax Justice design sprint bringing together campaigners, policy experts and open data specialists to discuss the first stages of creating a pilot database for country-by-country reporting (CBCR) data....
Today, OpenBudgets.eu presents the European Structural Funds Data Quality Index. Slovenia ranks highest, based on high data quality and high accessibility and usability of its portal. Denmark comes in second, they provide outstanding data quality in...
The Westminster expenses scandal in the UK back in 2009 made headlines with journalists uncovering parliamentarians using their expenses to redecorate their home homes, evade taxes and one MP even used expenses to build a duck house. This lead to a...
This year has seen a number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) getting into trouble over the use of their expenses. It is time for the Parliament to put in place robust transparency rules on how MEPs spend public money.
Last week, OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, published its 2015 Annual Report, highlighting developments and achievements in preventing and tackling fraud and corruption across the EU. The head of OLAF, Giovanni Kessler has said that OLAF has...
