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A report on causes and trends of corruption risk in Europe-41
The European Union (EU) has long been lauded as a champion in public integrity. However, corruption in Europe remains a persistent challenge. This report presents 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…
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Do social media increase polarization in the debate about corruption?
While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on media and corruption in recent years, the role of digital media, and in particular social media, is still an open question in corruption and anti-corruption studies. In their paper “Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal: A Social Media Perspective” (Marchetti et al., 2024),…
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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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“Lo spettacolo della corruzione” (The Spectacle of Corruption)
This Thursday, February 13th, BridgeGap members Rita Marchetti, Paolo Mancini and Marco Mazzoni, from our partner the University of Perugia present their latest publication, “Lo spettacolo della corruzione” (The Spectacle of Corruption), hosted at the Senate of the Republic in Rome. The event, organized by Senator Walter Verini, will cover the complex interplay between media…
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Managing experts’ conflicts of interest in the EU Joint Clinical Assessment
Ariana Gentilini and Iva Parnanova, Research Associate at LUISS and member of BridgeGap BMJ Open (2024) https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091777 The article evaluates the EU’s 2024 Implementing Regulation (IR) on managing conflicts of interest (COIs) in health technology assessment (HTA). It introduces EU-wide COI management for experts, requiring annual declarations of financial and non-financial interests. Based on French…