Transparency International

🔵 The Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 is out! We analysed 182 countries to see how they scored in the fight against corruption. Check out your country’s score! ⬇️ #CPI2025 transparency.org/en/cpi/2025?ut…

Find out more about our Standards for Integrity in Political Finance ⬇️ transparency.org/en/publication…

Beyond Germany, Transparency International calls on all countries to strengthen cooperation between election bodies, financial intelligence units, and law enforcement through information sharing and joint investigations.

Democratic oversight shouldn't depend on luck. In Germany, in a straw man political donation case, that is exactly what happened. 🧵⬇️

Civil society organisations worldwide are grappling with shrinking civic space & democratic backsliding. "The Enabling Space: Voices of Civil Society Resistance" unites leaders & practitioners to discuss the implications of these trends. 🎧 Listen now: anticorru.pt/3hW

To celebrate #WorldBookDay, we asked our colleagues to recommend books about corruption. This curated list of 5 compelling titles includes a captivating novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, two journalistic investigations and a financial thriller.

COP31 has one job: deliver climate action. Not protect fossil fuel interests. Lobbying. Weak safeguards. Delayed action. The pattern is clear and it has to stop. Our latest analysis ⬇️ anticorru.pt/3hS

Full analysis⬇️ How effective is whistleblower protection in the… - Transparency.org

Whistleblowers don't just protect themselves. They protect all of us. Words on paper are not protection. Many governments have the tools. They just need the will to use them.

Whistleblowers expose fraud, bribery, and corruption. Often at enormous personal cost. Governments say they protect them. The data says otherwise. 🧵⬇️

⚠️ #EUSEE alerts: March 2026 saw increased security-driven governance and institutional control, with rising repression of civil society, media, and opposition using laws against journalists and activists. Check the overview of alerts here ➡️ anticorru.pt/3hO

The #PanamaPapers exposed the system. A decade later, major loopholes remain. Hidden ownership, enablers for hire and dirty money still acting freely. Read more⬇️ anticorru.pt/3hK

⚠️ #EUSEE alerts: March 2026 saw increased security-driven governance and institutional control, with rising repression of civil society, media, and opposition using laws against journalists and activists. Check the overview of alerts here ➡️ anticorru.pt/3hI

These are structural issues. Whatever the result of the elections, the real test begins the morning after. Citizens, civil society, and international organisations will need to sustain the pressure required to reclaim what has been captured.

87% of Hungarians say corruption is widespread in their country. Hungary scores 40/100 in our Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 — the lowest in the EU. In 2025, the European Commission found zero progress on lobbying reform, media independence, and civil society protection.

What an election can and cannot change in Hungary ⬇️ #Hungary votes on 12 April. On paper, it is a parliamentary election in an EU country. In practice, it is a test of a governance style praised by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.