EU ROUND UP – EU RESEARCH CREATES ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY ADVICE
May 22nd, 2015
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research into anti-corruption policies has concluded that projects spending EU funds are one-third more likely to be marred by corruption than those funded by EU national governments. The conclusion comes from the ANTICORRP project, whose researchers have been data mining hundreds of thousands of administrative records to find irregularities, where procurement has been un-transparent, inconsistent and/or seems to consistently benefit one or a group of companies or individuals. They have also surveyed 85,000 European citizens in 24 countries ...
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