5 Days to Doha – How many days to an effective review mechanism?

by Georg Neumann on 4:15 pm on Wednesday, 4. November 2009 | No Comments

In December 2006, the first Conference of States Parties agreed that “effective and efficient review of the implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (…) is of paramount importance and urgent.”
When governments met again in January 2008 in Bali, no progress was achieved.
This year in September, as part of its response to the persistent economic [...]

What is a ‘conflict of interest’?

by Craig Fagan on 8:08 pm on Monday, 27. July 2009 | 3 Comments

The financial crisis is awash in so many specialised terms that their sheer number seems to rival the amount of bail-out money being doled out to shore up the faltering economy.
One word that is constantly being bounced around, from the Bundestag to the White House, from Wall Street to High Street, is ‘conflict of interest’. [...]

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 [...]