This report assesses the national anti-money laundering framework in six European countries: Czech Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. It focuses on beneficial ownership transparency, a key aspect of the fight...
Last November amid the burgundy red buildings and blues skies of Marrakech countries from all over the globe came together for the annual Conference of Parties (COP) meeting on climate change. One of the agreements to come out of the COP 22 was to...
Yesterday Global Witness and Finance Uncovered published an investigation into dealings between Shell, its joint venture partner – the Italian oil giant Eni – and the Nigerian government. In 2011, Shell and Eni paid 1.1 billion USD for oil block...
Whether he stays on or not, Mr Dijsselbloem and the Eurogroup need to make sure that its next President does not have a built-in conflict of interest. For most of its existence, the Eurogroup’s workings were of little concern, as it went about...
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...
On Wednesday the 29th of March, the European Commission approved two new private sector positions for the UK’s former Commissioner, Jonathan Hill. Announced during the media commotion around the UK’s formal BREXIT notification, the Commission...
Transparency International EU calls on the Ukrainian authorities to abolish controversial amendments to the Law on Prevention of Corruption that appear specifically designed to intimidate and target anti-corruption activists. The amendments threaten...
TI Netherlands just published a new report entitled ‘Behind The Scenes: Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the Netherlands’. The report, which is available here, demonstrates that the Netherlands has a relatively good understanding of...
On April 3rd 2016 – exactly a year ago, the Panama Papers, a trove of 11.5 million files leaked from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, revealed how the global financial industry sells financial secrecy to politicians, football players,...
