Tag Archives | European debt crisis

The northern roots of southern Europe’s revenue problem

15 June 2012 in Europe and Central Asia

Reading about the Eurozone crisis in the newspapers, your natural response would be to think that Southern Europe has a problem of overspending. But it also has a revenue problem. The Southern European financial crisis and the envisaged tax Swiss-German law that would essentially launder illegal assets are two sides of the same coin. South […]

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‘We Have To Fight Corruption, Or It Will Defeat Us’

8 February 2012 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Measurement and Research

Transparency International’s Chair, Huguette Labelle, was interviewed by Benjamin Kessler for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act blog. She talks about what she would change about the FCPA, why companies should make compliance a priority and the possibility that countries which score low on the Corruption Perceptions Index are hit hardest in the European debt crisis. […]

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