Natural resources can lift millions in the developing world out of poverty. But they can also motivate and enable corruption, particularly given the large and sometimes vast revenues involved, the remoteness of many operations, the secrecy...
On 12 October 2016, Transparency International EU organised a debate on illegal logging and corruption in the forestry sector, focusing in particular on REDD+, we discussed corruption risks in the timber trade.
Gulnara Karimova, daughter of former President of Uzbekistan has led many lives. Once called the “Uzbek princess”, she has been a pop singer, fashion designer, owner of scents and gem brands and UN ambassador until her fall from grace in...
Readers of a certain age will be familiar with “A Shot in the Dark”, a comedy caper starring Peter Sellars that was part of the Pink Panther series in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It may seem unlikely starting point for a blog about the European...
On November 20th Eurostat, the statistical office for the European Commission, released their first progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report looked at 100 targets, out of 169, and included Transparency...
Will 2017 be remembered as a turning point in the global fight against corruption? Given the scale of the challenge – more than half of the 176 countries ranked in Transparency international ’s Corruption Perceptions Index could be classified as...
Today, Transparency International EU joins forces with diverse organisations from business and civil society to form the ALL Alliance for Democracy. ALL is a pro-European alliance launched to campaign in support of European cooperation and democracy...
Anyone who has to deal with the EU on a daily basis knows that sense of lurching from crisis to crisis that has characterised the last seven or eight years, so much so that the term ‘permacrisis’ has been coined to describe this seemingly...
Last month the European Court of Auditors published a special report called “Efforts to address problems with public procurement in EU cohesion expenditure should be intensified”. What that translates to in non-Brussels speak is how EU funds are...
