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International Anti-Corruption Cooperation and the Weaponisation of Cross-Border Undue Influence in a Multipolar World – New Deliverable
The Deliverable 3.3 is authored by Jacint Jordana (UPF-IBEI), Elisabeth de Vega (IBEI), and Adam Holesch (IBEI), and released in December 2025. The report focuses on the global governance of anti-corruption policies and the rising weaponisation of cross-border undue influence within a fragmented international arena. Its primary objective is to systematically map and classify the…
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New Deliverable: Why Cross-Border Corruption is Built Into the System
Credits: GTR The “Historical Background Report on Cross-Border Corruption” (Deliverable 1.3) for the BRIDGEGAP project starts with a clear-cut statement: Cross-Border Corruption (CBC) is a systemic feature of the global economy. Authored by Michael Johnston and Ina Kubbe, this document sits inside ordinary financial, legal, and regulatory infrastructure, rather than appearing as an occasional governance…
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New Deliverable: Case Studies of Best Practice and Critical Incidents at Organisational Level (Public, Private and Hybrid Organisations, as well as Public–Private Partnerships) Responding to (Trans)national Risks
Photo credits: Transparency International A comprehensive study by Adina Dudau, Alvise Favotto, Georgios Kominis, Denisse Rodriguez-Olivari from the University of Glasgow – Adam Smith Business School examines organizational Integrity Management Systems (IMS) across five sectors at high risk of corruption: defence, critical infrastructure, healthcare, professional sport, and banking. The report was produced under the Work…
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Working Paper 25-01: Report Maps Public Procurement Data Across Europe
The BridgeGap Working Paper Series presents the first edition by BridgeGap members Andrea Longobucco and Joras Ferwerda of the University of Utrecht, part of the Work Package 6 on Artificial Intelligence on “Fighting Corruption with Artificial Intelligence: Searching for Suitable Public Procurement Data in the EU”. This report provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the…
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New Deliverable: Report on Causes and Trends of Corruption Risk in Europe-41
The latest report by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Iva Parvanova from the Work Package 9 – Regulatory and Enforcement Gaps in Preventive Anticorruption Policies provides an evidence-based assessment of corruption trends across EU Member States (EUMS), accession candidates (EUCC), and neighboring countries (EUN), identifying key risks and proposing targeted policy interventions. KEY FINDINGS Defining corruption as…
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Upholding Integrity: The causes and trends of corruption risk in Europe-41.
A varied landscape in corruption risk The report assessed the public integrity framework and corruption risk for 41 European countries, European Union (EU), candidate countries (CCEU) and non-aligned countries (EUN- Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK). It finds that the ability of EU Member States in the North-West to control corruption differs widely from that of the…
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New Deliverable: Impact of Sanctions on Infiltration of Russia in Europe
Todor Galev, Tihomira Kostova, Marius Köppen, Paige Maylath, Tsvetomir Nikolov The pervasive influence of strategic corruption as a foreign policy tool has emerged as a significant challenge to global governance and democratic resilience in Europe and beyond. Unlike traditional forms of corruption, which are typically limited to personal enrichment or political advantage and lead to…
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Data Hub
Developed by a collaborative team from the Transparency International Secretariat, LUISS University, the Romanian Academic Society (SAR), and YouControl, the platform is an innovative tool to visualize and share critical data on corruption dynamics. This collaborative effort invites you, the reader, to be part of a global initiative. Over ten months, the team has built…