Go clean to go green – how civic oversight in public contracting can help reach EU climate goals
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Integrity Pacts can protect EU’s green investments; successful projects in Greece, Hungary and Slovenia show how.
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Clearing the smokescreen: The deadly consequences of undue influence
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New investigations reveal back-room deals and secretive campaigns involving the tobacco industry are far from being a thing of the past.
CPI 2019: Western Europe & European Union
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Fourteen of the top 20 countries in this year’s CPI are from Western Europe and the European Union (EU), including nine countries from the EU alone. Despite being the best…
Resilient institutions
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Reducing corruption is an important component of the sustainable development agenda, and one that all state parties have an obligation to address. Although corruption is often…
World Whistleblower Day 2019 – is this a landmark year for whistleblower protection?
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Too often, whistleblowers face retaliation after bringing corruption, fraud and financial malpractice to light. Is change around the corner?This year, we celebrate World…
Austria’s Strache affair and the undue influence toolkit
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A week ago, German newspapers published evidence of the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and a colleague apparently negotiating corrupt deals with the purported niece of a…
Why corruption matters in the EU elections
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What voters should know as they head to the polls.
Four ways the G20 can take the lead on anti-corruption
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The globalisation of world trade and finance has been accompanied by an internationalisation of corruption. The G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group therefore has the potential to be…
Three years after the Panama Papers: progress on horizon
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The explosive Pulitzer Prize-winning global media project known as the "Panama Papers" turned three years old, and there are many reasons to celebrate.
Troika Laundromat signals a different kind of financial crisis
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The Troika Laundromat investigation shines a spotlight on a cast of new and familiar characters in the ongoing saga surrounding flows of dirty money through the world’s financial…
Western Europe and EU: stagnating anti-corruption efforts and weakening democratic institutions
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With an average regional score of 66 out of 100, Western Europe and the EU are doing far better than other parts of the globe. However, for a region that prides itself on some of…
International Anti-Corruption Day 2018: The power of people’s pressure
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Across the world, Transparency International chapters work hard to help the public become involved and engaged in the fight against corruption.
