TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL WARNING ON COVID-19 GRAFT
May 2nd, 2020
Transparency International (TI) is warning governments to take care that any softening in public procurement rules and other red tape to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic should not be allowed to generate corruption. Pointing to the European Commission’s April 1 guidelines on public procurement during the Covid-19 crisis, TI agrees in its weekly newsletter that European Union countries need to find “swift and smart solutions” for buying equipment needed to fight the disease, with fewer controls and red tape, but: “Fast and effective should not mean opaque ...
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