Tag Archives | conflict of interest

Cleaning up sport: conflicts of interest at the top

9 December 2016 in Sport

The tension between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has never been greater than this year, when WADA recommended a ban on all Russian athletes from participating in the Rio Olympic Games, only to have the IOC reject that position. This points to a fundamental challenge for the relationship between […]

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2012: What is public sector corruption?

5 December 2012 in Measurement and Research

Last year, we ran a blog post examining the many forms of public sector corruption. In conjunction with the launch of our 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, we are reposting this piece with updated figures. The Corruption Perceptions Index  highlights corruption in the public sector. But what exactly does this mean? Drawing on Transparency International’s Plain […]

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Brussels waters down Euro-Parliament Code of Conduct

6 September 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Politics and government

In the European Parliament the issue of codes of conduct is a hot topic at the moment. As one Member of the European Parliament recently stated on facebook, “What my employment was before I was elected, is not of the European Parliament or your business.”  Unfortunately, it seems that some members of the European Parliament (MEPs) […]

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EU agencies face long summer cooling off

20 June 2012 in European Union

You have never heard of them, but they assess the safety of the food you eat, the water you bathe in and the drugs your doctor prescribes. Welcome to the world of European Union agencies – independent, arms-length bodies established by the EU to provide specialist advice and expertise to policy makers on a wide […]

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French anti-corruption efforts coming up short

16 March 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Lobbying, Politics and government

Ten French presidential candidates have already publicly engaged with our chapter Transparence International France’s 7 propositions for the fight against corruption – but President Nicolas Sarkozy has not. Transparence International France is calling on him to do so, along with all remaining presidential candidates. Just after his election victory in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy said that […]

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What is a ‘conflict of interest’?

27 July 2009 in Anti-corruption movement, Financial Markets, Measurement and Research, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector

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 […]

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