MEPS APPROVE WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION DIRECTIVE
April 1st, 2019
The European Parliament has backed a ground-breaking directive that would protect whistleblowers European Union (EU)-wide by 591 votes in favour and 29 against. Currently only 10 of the EU’s 28 member states (France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and the UK) have national legislation that effectively protects whistleblowers, according to the European Commission. Some, notably Luxembourg, will even prosecute whistleblowers as shown by the Luxleaks case, when two PwC employees and a journalist were charged and convicted ...
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