Analysis reveals corruption more pervasive in countries where money influences political power Berlin, 23 January 2020 – More than two-thirds of countries – along with many of the world’s most advanced economies – are stagnating or showing...
The start of a new year is traditionally a time to make good resolutions. At Transparency International EU, we think that it’s high time to give EU staff the same whistleblowing rights as other EU workers. First, a bit of background. In 2019, the...
Europe should not become a home for corrupt money.
If you have a pot of money of dubious origin, Europe could appear a safe place to launder and hide it.
By Laure Brillaud and Maíra Martini Recent money laundering scandals have shown how indispensable European banks and other intermediaries have been in helping – either knowingly or negligently – design and run dodgy schemes. This casts serious...
Transparency International EU (TI EU), the Brussels office of the global movement against corruption, has called on Member States to redouble their efforts to find a way forward on the issue of corporate tax transparency, following the latest...
Three years have passed since the European Commission published a legislative proposal for mandatory tax transparency for multinational companies in the EU, called Public Country by Country Reporting[1]. This week, Ministers from EU Member States...
Brussels is in the middle of a chaotic Commissioner-designate hearing season and the trials and tribulations of these past few weeks only reconfirm the urgent need for an independent EU ethics body. Two candidates have already been rejected; the...
The Eurogroup agreed on a number of steps to increase its transparency, but the news was quietly published on the website and passed largely unnoticed. Transparency International EU welcomes the reform steps agreed by the Eurogroup on 20 September,...
The newly elected MEPs of the UK Brexit Party* and the Italian party Lega have the highest combined outside earnings of any national party delegations in the European Parliament, according to an analysis by Transparency International EU (TI EU)....
