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...
Wednesday 16 October 2019 will mark two years since the brutal assassination of Malta’s best-known investigative journalist and anti-corruption campaigner, Daphne Caruana Galizia. Although three men have now been formally charged with her murder,...
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)....
Transparency International EU, the Brussels office of the global movement against corruption, has welcomed the EU Ambassadors’ endorsement of Ms. Laura Kösevi as Chief European Public Prosecutor. Kövesi is the former head of Romania’s...
Download the full report here. Transparency International EU published a report today that addresses problems with the return of dirty money and assets to victim populations and calls for an overhaul of current EU policy. Grand corruption[1] takes...
By Laure Brillaud and Maíra Martini On 24 July, the European Commission (EC) released a communication addressed to the European Parliament and the Council towards better implementation of current European anti-money laundering (AML) rules. In a...
European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) boost growth and jobs and help build everything from transport infrastructure to schools, housing, water and power supply and fund other community improvement projects. But with vast expenditures,...
Transparency International is pleased to welcome Michiel van Hulten as the Director of its EU office in Brussels. Michiel brings over 20 years’ experience of EU policy, campaigns and communications to the team and will be leading the team’s...