Fighting corruption in Europe and Central Asia: issues, approaches, lessons, questions

by Georg Neumann on 12:48 pm on Tuesday, 16. June 2009 | No Comments

Emerging issues, new tools and approaches, strategies and lessons learnt in the fight against corruption will be discussed over the couple of next days as part of the Europe and Central Asia Meeting taking place from 15-17 June in the FYR of Macedonia. The meeting, organised by Transparency International’s chapter Transparency Zero-Corruption and the national [...]

European elections – time to rethink weak transparency rules?

by Christian Humborg on 7:12 pm on Tuesday, 2. June 2009 | 1 Comment

Thursday is an important day for Europe. The elections for the European Parliament begin. The expenses scandal in the UK shows that politicians in Europe are no angels. Therefore trust, transferred by vote, should be supplemented by clear regulations and transparency rules on the European level. Although there have been some steps in the past, [...]

One million anti-corruption supporters wanted

by Georg Neumann on 4:58 pm on Wednesday, 25. March 2009 | 10 Comments

Several members of the European Parliament have launched a cross-party petition urging the European Commission and Member States to propose legislation and mechanisms to fight corruption. High-level corruption in EU relations with third countries is a particular focus of the petition.

A list of detailed measures for the EU to fight corruption proposed by the petition [...]