COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S GRECO GROUP CHASES CORRUPTION ACROSS THE CONTINENT
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM - the host of Europe's de facto capital - has long been regarded as being flawed as regards corruption - but now the Council of Europe's GRECO watchdog is on its case. Keith Nuthall reports.
GRECO - the Council of Europe's Group of States against Corruption - acts like its MONEYVAL committee does as regards money laundering. It is a peer group organisation of governments, who look at each other's dirty secrets and try to shame each other into doing better. GRECO was established in 1999 to encourage the Council of Europe's 47 member ...
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