April 2nd, 2014
This piece originally appeared on the websites of EurActiv and The Africa Report.
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$35 million mansion in California, artwork
totaling €18 million, and a $38 million dollar private jet.
These sound like items purchased by the world’s wealthiest oligarchs, right?
Well, they were actually acquired by Teodorin Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. When his father convenes with other leaders for this week’s EU-Africa summit, a wide range of
topics will be covered. But there’s one issue in particular that should be given a loudspeaker during the talks in...
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March 20th, 2014
This article, written by the FTC’s EU campaigner, Koen Roovers, originally appeared on OpenDemocracy.net. There’s an old saying that the legislative process is a lot like making sausages – it’s confusing, messy, and you don’t really want to know how it’s done. The European institutions in Brussels, the butcher shop in this case, decide how
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March 14th, 2014
Last month, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) released a report to outline how shifting to a new international information exchange system would work.
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March 7th, 2014
In the coming days, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will face a clear-cut choice: to move closer to ending financial secrecy, or to stagnate within the current system of opacity. The specific issue at hand is whether corporations should be required to disclose beneficial ownership information, which identifies who actually owns a company. The
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