Led by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), this work package focuses on anti-corruption legislation in EU member states and EU candidate countries. It examines: a) the legal framework introduced at the national level in different sectors of state activity to curb corruption, b) the influence that EU and Council of Europe norms have exerted on its configuration, and c) the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of national rules and norms by domestic judicial and non-judicial authorities.
This work package provides an overview of legislative interventions at the national level against corruption, maps the present state of regulatory framework, its effectiveness and shortcomings, and inquires after the legislative interventions and other initiatives of the EU (for example, the EU public procurement directives to ensure transparency and equal treatment) and the Council of Europe in the field and their impact on national legal regimes. In addition, it examines the practice of domestic judicial and quasi-judicial, independent authorities as regards the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of anti-corruption legislation.
Finally, the aim of the research in WP10 is to increase our understanding of the mechanisms under which the proceedings of corruption have been concealed and to develop mechanisms and policy options to increase the exchange among countries of financial information leading to the recovery of such proceeds. Special attention is paid to the role of non-state actors that may enhance the enforcement of provisions. The Basel Institute on Governance’s Asset Recovery Centre undertakes the main work on the objectives concerning the concealment and recovery of proceedings from corruption, while a broader consortium group addresses the others.
Prof. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi will give a keynote talk at the civil society morning of the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Paris. The OGP summit will involve 3000 representatives from 70 countries: Heads of State and governments, ministers, public servants, members of parliament, local authorities, civil society representatives, start-ups and digital innovators, civic techs, developers, […]
Presentation of the Findings of the ANTICORRP Research Project in Athens, Greece. Pleaes find the programme attached.
Recording from Athens, 9 May 2016, 14:10 – 15:30. Corruption has by now been recognised as a major policy problem across the world. Governments across the European continent, from Greece to Iceland, are trying to address the issue with different approaches. The recent publication of the Panama Papers again highlighted the varying success of these […]
Recent years have shown an increase in policymakers’ investment in anti-corruption, culminating with the European Commission’s Anti-corruption Report, the G7 discussion and PM David Cameron’s dedicated summit later this year. Despite these efforts, a recent OECD report acknowledges that we have no current country case to point to as a successful example of the international […]
Hacettepe University, together with Transparency International (TI) Turkey , is hosting a one day conference on governance institutions in Turkey. Keynote speakers include Hansjörg Haber, Ambassdor of the European Union to Turkey and Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Briber. At the event TI Turkey will launch its latest National Integrity Assessment Report. Furhter […]
ANTICORRP was a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. The project started in March 2012 and ended February 2017. The full name is Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption.
Its central objective was to investigate factors that promote or hinder the development of effective anti-corruption policies.
The project consisted of 20 research groups in 15 EU countries. It was interdisciplinary in nature, and brought together researchers from anthropology, criminology, economics, gender studies, history, law, political science, public policy and public administration.
The project was organised into four thematic pillars, which include 11 substantive work packages.
What factors promote or hinder the development of effective anticorruption policies and impartial government institutions? The ANTICORRP project and the Quality of Government (QoG) invited policy-makers, civil society representatives and academics to a conference in Brussels trying to surmise the final results of the ANTICORRP project. The conference counted among its speakers some of the […]
Luxembourg has just punished a whistleblower for telling the truth about tax evasion (Luxleaks); it is, together with Singapore, a favourite destinations for individuals and companies to hide income. Yet Luxembourg ranks number 10 and Singapore 7 in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2016 published by Transparency International. They are followed by a wealth of […]
The political and economic turmoil that hit Greece since 2009 also shed a light on the issue of corruption in the country. The ANTICORRP project looks at corruption and anti-corruption strategies in the entire world, but naturally has a particular focus on what is happening in the European Union and also in Greece. The results […]
Across Europe, while some regions elect relatively high shares of women to local councils, men almost exclusively dominate the councils of others. New research by Aksel Sundström and Lena Wängnerud suggests that informal recruitment practices are important in understanding why. Their study shows that in regions where corruption is endemic in local government, authorities elect lower shares of women – a finding with implications for strategies on how to increase women’s presence in elected bodies.
This paper seeks to explore why some states respond to and comply with international and regional standards for the regulation of political financing whereas other countries do not. For this purpose, it builds on the third GRECO evaluation round, which has taken up the issue of political party funding, with reference to the Committee of […]
What impact does the European Union (EU) and other international donors have on the development of good governance in South Eastern Europe (SEE)? The comparative analysis shows that the externally-driven good governance reforms improve substantive legality (the alignment of domestic legislation with international best standards), state capacity and efficiency but weaken formal legality (the inner […]
The ANTICORRP Project Work Package (WP) 10 on “Monitoring anti-corruption legislation and enforcement in Europe” has the overall aim to study state compliance and implementation of international and European anti-corruption norms in the EU member states. It is specifically interested in exploring whether international and European norms have an independent influence in prompting EU member […]
Background ANTICORRP is a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. The full name of the project is “Anti-corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption”. The project started in March 2012 and will last for five years. The research is conducted by 20 research groups […]