Chlo\u00e9 Ridel, a Socialist lawmaker working on the file, said the law also includes specific definitions for many corruption offenses that all EU countries now will share, such as \u201cbribery in the public and private sector, misappropriation in the public and private sector, trading and influence, enrichment from corruption offenses, of obstruction of justice, concealment, and incitement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Center-right European People\u2019s Party negotiator David Casa highlighted that the common definitions will facilitate cross-border cooperation and praised the new reporting requirements for EU countries to the Commission as helping Brussels improve monitoring of how member countries tackle corruption.<\/p>\n
Not enough<\/strong><\/p>\n However, critics said the bill isn\u2019t sufficiently far-reaching.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite the efforts by the Parliament, any agreement will be a far cry from what the EU needs to battle corruption in 27 Member States,\u201d said Transparency International EU chief Nick A\u00efossa ahead of the deal, criticizing countries for lobbying to water it down.<\/p>\n Right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists MEP Mariusz Kami\u0144ski highlighted that countries were not required to establish independent anti-corruption authorities.<\/p>\n \u201cHow can we push Ukrainians to keep their anti-corruption office independent if we do not require the same inside the EU? There is no strict requirement for such\u00a0a body to be specialized, and no requirement for it to be independent,\u201d\u00a0Kami\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00e9 Ridel, a Socialist lawmaker working on the file, said the law also includes specific definitions for many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[45787,2000,299,5187,1699,1824,2440,2199,3053,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-608416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-daniel-freund","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-giorgia-meloni","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-the-netherlands","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115652698019299889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}