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BridgeGap Webinar Invitation: Celebrating International Anti-Corruption Day
Topic: Follow the Money and the T-Index: Mapping Political Power and Hidden Networks with BridgeGap Date: 9 December 2024 Time: 14:00-15.00 CET Where: Online Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_koNP2uXFSOe8SibxFvf17w Join us for this special webinar organized under the Horizon Europe project BridgeGap, a key initiative driving innovative research and tools to combat corruption, enhance transparency, and promote good…
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Good Corruption Hunt with the New Follow the Money Tool
We are excited to announce that the search engine for investigating suspicious oligarchs, politicians, or companies FOLLOW THE MONEY now works on the BridgeGap website. Follow the Money is a search engine enabled by the Youcontrol, a #BridgeGap partner organization, on top of their YC World pooled database. The search engine enables investigating beneficial ownership…
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Follow the Money: Mapping Political Power and Hidden Networks
Understanding global corruption and power dynamics is a complex challenge, with researchers often struggling to find reliable tools to uncover hidden networks of influence. Follow the Money by YouControl is a search engine that helps trace financial flows, uncover connections, and analyse complex financial networks to promote transparency and accountability. It integrates data from various…
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Europe’s struggle with corruption showcased in The Economist
The Economist article “Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think” highlights the pervasive corruption within the European Union, despite EU’s reputation for high governance standards. Lithuania is showcased as an EU success story, having dramatically improved its transparency and anti-corruption measures. However, the European Research Centre for Anti-corruption and State-building (ERCAS) notes that other…
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Crisis in Venezuela: How a Strong Latin American Stance on Transparency Could Help Revitalize Regional Support for Democracy
On July 28, 2024, Venezuela held one of its most contentious elections in decades. Incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, faced an invigorated opposition that, after overcoming legal and other barriers to their campaign, consistently outperformed the government’s candidate in the polls. Despite these developments, and contradicting preliminary results from independent exit polls, the government-controlled National Electoral…
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Did corruption harm electoral results for the European Parliament?
There is evidence that the institutional corruption of the Qatar Gate (as the entire sub-committee of human rights has been exposed to favors and the outcome changed, this is institutional corruption by Harvard ethics standards) seriously subverted trust in the European parliament and might have influenced results of the EP elections. Recent evidence had already…
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The rise of crowdfunded corruption indicators: the T-index 2023 and beyond
In 2021, the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) conducted the first direct measurement of state transparency by introducing 20 objective indicators – 14 de facto, 6 de jure – each of which can be traced back to its original source with a single click on the website. ERCAS initially assessed the level…
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International Anti-Corruption Conference #IACC2024
The 21st IACC, to take place in Vilnius, Lithuania in June 2024 calls all who fight for integrity and those who defend it, from all regions of the world, from the public and private sectors, civil society, media, academia and from younger generations to come together to define the necessary actions to counter the growth of the…