Council of Europe

28 March 2013
Iceland urged to further strengthen anti-corruption measures
Due to its unique circumstances, Iceland faces particular challenges in preventing corruption among its key institutions. Significant improvements have been made recently, notably since the collapse of the banking system, but there is still work to be done. (more...)

27 March 2013
Finland encouraged to further sharpen its tools to prevent corruption - Finland has an effective system for preventing corruption among members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. However, there is still room for improvement – particularly with regard to conflicts of interest among parliamentarians. (more...)

6 March 2013
Council of Europe anti-corruption body praises UK parliament, judges and prosecutors for taking corruption prevention seriously - Published today by the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) [link to report], an evaluation of the UK’s parliament, judges and prosecutors was largely positive. (more...)

25 January 2013
GRECO encourages Poland to pursue efforts in preventing corruption in the parliament and the judiciary - The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Fourth Round Evaluation Report on Poland. It focuses on the prevention of corruption of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. (more...)

22 January 2013
Thorbjørn Jagland: “Corruption is the biggest threat to democracy in Europe today”
Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland today issued an impassioned call for Europe to reaffirm its collective and individual commitment to protect human rights, solidarity and democracy, but warned that widespread corruption was undermining citizens’ trust in the rule of law. (more...)

13 August 2012
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls for improved anti-bribery legislation and a more transparent political funding in the Russian Federation – The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today called for the Russian Federation to increase its efforts to combat bribery and to achieve greater transparency in the sphere of political party and election compaign financing. (more...)

9 May 2012
Council of Europe anti-corruption body calls on states to increase transparency of political funding
The Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today called on its member states to set up transparent systems for party and election campaign financing. In its annual activity report GRECO, while acknowledging an increase in regulatory efforts by states in this field, points out a number of shortcomings. (more...)

11 April 2012
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls on Italy to improve transparency in political party funding and to sanction corruption vigorously - The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) identified critical shortcomings in the party funding system of Italy which must be addressed as a matter of priority. (more...)

3 April 2012
GRECO’s first decade: some lessons to be learnt through eight thematic articles
The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes today a compendium on the themes that have been dealt with over the first decade of its existence (from 2000 to 2011). (more...)

29 March 2012
Council of Europe calls on Monaco to reinforce its legislation on bribery and to regulate political financing
In its report on Monaco [theme I / theme II] published today, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe highlights that the incriminations of bribery and trading in influence suffer from significant deficiencies with regard to the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. (more...)

28 February 2012
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption recommends more transparency in San Marino’s public administration. In its first report on San Marino [hyperlink to report], released today, the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) highlights that the country is still at an early stage in the fight against corruption and needs to pay greater attention to integrity and transparency in the public sector. (more...)

26 January 2012
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls on the USA to ratify the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, praises the overall transparency of political financing but stresses the need to enhance this transparency in respect of certain types of contributions. (more...)

13 January 2012
Council of Europe Anti-corruption body calls on Austria to ratify the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption and to improve transparency of political funding
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today called for Austria to ratify the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, to fully implement it, and to swiftly and substantially improve legislation on political funding. (more...)

2011

9 December 2011
GRECO bids farewell to its President - Drago KOS - and elects a new President, Vice-President and Bureau
Drago KOS (Slovenia), GRECO’s President since 2002, left this important function on the day of election of a new President, Vice-President and Bureau at GRECO’s 53rd plenary meeting (5-9 December). Mr Kos’ outstanding services to the Council of Europe and GRECO were honoured with the Organisation’s Pro Merito Medal presented to him by Deputy Secretary General Maud DE BOER-BUQUICCHIO. (more...)

2 December 2011
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls for rules on political funding and increased effectiveness of certain anti-corruption provisions in Switzerland – The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption – GRECO) today called for Switzerland to increase the effectiveness of criminal law particularly concerning bribery of foreign public officials and in the private sector, and to adopt legislation on political funding. (more...)

30 November 2011
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption calls for improved anti-bribery legislation and stricter supervision of political funding in Ukraine - The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today called for Ukraine to increase its efforts to combat bribery and create greater transparency of political funding. (more...)

17 August 2011
Group of States against Corruption publishes report on Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which it calls for determined steps to enforce criminal legislation and effectively convict corruption offenders. GRECO also calls for more transparency and accountability as regards the funding of political parties and election campaigns. (more...)

1 July 2011
Group of States against Corruption publishes report on Georgia - The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Georgia, in which it finds significant progress in legislation on transparency of political funding, but also stresses the need for a mechanism to supervise it is effectively applied. (more...)

29 June 2011
Group of States against Corruption today published its annual report - GRECO Chair Drago Kos calls for more resources to fight corruption - Drago Kos, Chair of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), today called for more resources – time and effort, and ultimately funding – for fighting corruption in Europe, and at global level. (more...)

15 June 2011
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Andorra, in which it finds that further amendments to the Criminal Code are necessary to comply with Council of Europe standards. GRECO also calls for considerable changes to the legislation on political financing. (more...)

29 April 2011
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on the Czech Republic, in which it stresses the importance of the effective application of the legislation on corruption and more substantial and pro-active supervision of political financing. (more...)

11 April 2011
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Armenia in which it finds that further amendments to the Criminal Code are necessary to comply with Council of Europe standards. GRECO also calls for a strengthening of the supervision over the funding of political parties and election campaigns. (more...)

6 April 2011
GRECO report on Moldova calls for improvement of anti-bribery legislation and for stricter supervision of political funding
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Moldova, in which it acknowledges improvements in the legislation to fight corruption and regulate political funding, but concludes that improvements are needed to combat bribery and calls for a stricter supervision and greater transparency of political funding. (more...)

4 April 2011
GRECO report on Cyprus: Need for uniform anti-corruption legislation and greater transparency of financing of political parties
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Cyprus, in which it stresses a clear need to establish a uniform legal framework for the criminalisation of corruption offences. GRECO also concludes that private sector financing of political parties should be more transparent. (more...)

28 March 2011
GRECO an exemplary standard for international anti-corruption, says Deputy Secretary General - The Deputy Secretary General made an introductory speech at the GRECO on the occasion of its 50th Plenary Meeting. She underlined that, over the past 11 years, GRECO has set an exemplary standard for international anti-corruption. (more...)


15 March 2011
Group of States against Corruption publishes report on Romania
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Romania, in which it stresses the need to achieve improvements in the area of party financing and the legal framework for corruption offences. (more...)

13 January 2011
Belarus joins the Group of States against Corruption as its 49th member
With the entry into force on 13 January 2011 of the agreement between Belarus and the Council of Europe concerning the privileges and immunities of the representatives of members of the Group of States against Corruption and the members of GRECO evaluation teams, the participation of Belarus in GRECO becomes effective.  (more...)

2010

14 December 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Montenegro - (more...)

9 December 2010
International Anti-Corruption Day
GRECO President Drago Kos: “We need further cooperation with the EU in the fight against corruption” - Drago Kos, President of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption, today issued the following statement to mark the International Anti-Corruption Day. (more...)

8 December 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Portugal - (more...)

6 December 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Serbia - (more...)

18 November 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Azerbaijan - (more...)

10 November 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Bulgaria - (more...)

30 September 2010
Exchange of views with Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC)
In the context of the preparation of its Fourth Evaluation Round, GRECO held an exchange of views on Corruption Prevention in Parliamentary Assemblies with the participation of Mr Ghassan E. MOUKHEIBER, Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC) and Chair of GOPAC’s Global Task Force on Parliamentary Ethics, as keynote speaker.
From left to right: M. Mrcela (GRECO Vice-President), G.E. Moukheiber (GOPAC), W. Rau (Executive Secretary of GRECO)

30 August 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” - (more...)

16 August 2010
The Republic of San Marino has joined the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) on 13 August 2010 as its 48th Member State. This accession further strengthens GRECO’s role as the reference for anti-corruption monitoring in Europe: its membership extends to the entire continent, all 47 Member States of the Council of Europe, and beyond to the United States of America.  (read more ...)

29 July 2010
Group of States against Corruption publishes report on Hungary - (more...)

7 July 2010
Group of States against Corruption publishes report on Greece - (read more...)

29 June 2010
GRECO publishes horizontal study on Political financing - “Political Financing: GRECO’s first 22 evaluations” focuses on three key topics examined by GRECO - (more...)

24 June 2010
GRECO publishes its Tenth General Activity Report, an overview of 2009 - (more...)

20 April 2010 
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Turkey - (more...)

25 February 2010
Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption publishes Report on Denmark - (more...)

17 February 2010
Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption publishes Report on Lithuania - (more...)

25 January 2010
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Ireland, which focuses on two distinct themes: criminalisation of corruption and transparency of party funding. (read more...)

12 January 2010
On 1 January 2010, Liechtenstein became a member of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) (more...)

2009

9 December 2009
The Group of States against Corruption publishes its Third Round Evaluation Report on Germany. (more...)

9 December 2009
The Group of States against Corruption publishes its Third Round Evaluation Report on Croatia. (more...)

10 November 2009 
The Group of States against Corruption publishes its Third Round Evaluation Report on Malta. (more...)

16 October 2009 
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Italy. (more...)

12 October 2009 
GRECO’s 10th Anniversary Conference (Strasbourg, 5 October 2009) and 44th Plenary Meeting (6-8 October 2009) (more...)

17 September 2009 
Criminalisation of corruption and transparency of party funding in Albania are the focus of a report published by the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today. (more...)

20 August 2009
High-level Conference on the occasion of GRECO’s 10th Anniversary - Strasbourg, 5 October 2009 - In October 2009, 10 years will have elapsed since 21 member States of the Council of Europe gathered in Strasbourg on the occasion of the first plenary meeting of the Group of States against Corruption – GRECO. (read more...)

22 June 2009
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Belgium, following the agreement of the Belgian authorities. (more...)

28 May 2009 
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes its Third Round Evaluation Report on Spain. (more...)

5 May 2009
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Norway. (more...)

30 April 2009 
The Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on the Russian Federation, which joined GRECO in 2007. The Report has been made public with the agreement of the Russian authorities. (more...)

31 March 2009 
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Third Round Evaluation Report on Sweden. (more...)

26 March 2009
The Group of States against corruption - GRECO has published today its Ninth General Activity report (2008) which was presented yesterday to the Committee of Ministers by GRECO’s President, Mr Drago KOS (Slovenia). (more...)

12 March 2009 
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on France. (more...)

17 February 2009
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) today published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Poland. (more...)

2008

19 December 2008  GRECO published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Austria. (more...)

14 November 2008   GRECO published Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Monaco. (more...)

23 October 2008 GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Latvia. (more...)

10 September 2008  GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Netherlands. (more...)

25 August 2008 GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Luxembourg. (more...)

8 July 2008  Drago KOS, the President of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) expresses great concern at the elimination of the Office of the Anti-Corruption Commissioner in Italy. (more...)

13 June 2008  GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Slovenia. (more...)

2 juin 2008  GRECO) published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Switzerland. (more....)

22 April 2008  GRECO published today a summary record of a Tour de Table on the issue of revolving doors/pantouflage, including presentations made by experts from four countries which have detailed regulations governing the movement of public officials to to the private sector [link].

16 April 2008  GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Iceland. (more...)

15 April 2008  GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on Estonia. (more...)

8 April 2008  GRECO published its Eighth General Activity report (2007) (more...)

3 April 2008 GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on the United Kingdom. (more...)

14 March 2008  GRECO published its Third Round Evaluation Report on the Slovak Republic. (more...)

2007

12 December 2007 Criminalisation of corruption and political financing in Finland - the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes its first Third Round Evaluation Report (more...)

9 December 2007 Statement by Mr Drago KOS, President of the Group of States against Corruption, on the occasion of the International Anti-corruption Day  / Video message
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29 October 2007 GRECO publishes its report on Ukraine (more...)

3 July 2007 Monaco becomes 46th member of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) On 1 July, Monaco became the 46th member State of GRECO (*) - a direct and automatic result of the Principality ratifying the Council of Europe’s Criminal Law Convention on Corruption on 19 March this year. (more...)

2 July 2007 Italy becomes 45th member of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) Italy has notified the Secretary General of the Council of Europe of its intention to accede to GRECO, of which it has become the 45th member as from 30 June 2007. (more...)

14 June 2007 GRECO publishes today its Seventh General Activity report (2006) (more...)

24 May 2007 The 33rd plenary meeting of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) will be devoted to a training workshop on incriminations within the Third Evaluation Round (29 May) and the examination of reports in the framework of the First and Second Evaluation Rounds (30 May-1 June). (more...)

7 February 2007 The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes report on Andorra The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Andorra (link to report). The report is made public with the agreement of the Andorran authorities. (more...)

1 February 2007 The Russian Federation becomes 44th member of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) (more...)

31 January 2007 GRECO publishes report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (more...)

15 January 2007 GRECO publishes report on Georgia (more...)

9 January 2007 GRECO published report on the Republic of Montenegro (more...)

2006

6 December 2006  Speech by T. DAVIS - ''Corruption undermines the very foundations of democracy'' (more...)

30 November 2006 The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes report on Turkey
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Turkey, which joined GRECO in 2004. (more...)

17 November 2006 The Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) publishes report on Moldova
The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has published today its Second Round Evaluation Report on Moldova. The report has been made public with the agreement of the Moldovan authorities. (more...)

17 October 2006 GRECO publishes report on the USA (more...)

9 October 2006 GRECO published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on the Republic of Serbia (more...)

20 September 2006 GRECO published its Joint First and Second Round Evaluation Report on Azerbaijan (more...)

22 August 2006 GRECO concludes non-compliance procedure against Georgia (more...)

19 July 2006 GRECO published report on Cyprus (more...)

27 June 2006 GRECO published its 6th General Activity Report (2005) (more ...)

14 June 2006 GRECO published report on the Czech Republic (more ...)

24 May 2006 GRECO published report on Portugal (more...)

16 May 2006 GRECO published report on Hungary (more...).

10 March 2006 GRECO published report on Armenia (more...)

28 February 2006 GRECO published report on Ireland (more...)

12 January 2006 Ukraine becomes 40th member of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) (more...)

6 January 2006 GRECO's visit to the USA from 12 to 16 December 2005. (more...)

2005

13 December 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Reports on Croatia (more...) and Greece. (more...)

2 December 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" (more...).

10 November 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on the Netherlands. (more...)

19 October 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Romania. (more...)

17 October 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Bulgaria. (more...)

14 September 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Lithuania. (more...)

23 August 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Malta. (more...)

8 July 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Albania. (more...)

6 July 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Germany. (more...)

5 July 2005 GRECO published its Second Round Evaluation Report on Spain. (more...)

23 June 2005 GRECO published its Fifth General Activity report for 2004 (more...)