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Who Gets Prosecuted? Mapping Europe’s Fight Against Domestic and Cross-Border Corruption
The comparative report on the assessment and explanation of enforcement capabilities and performance of contrast of domestic and cross-border corruption in the EU is a first, design-oriented version of Deliverable which as the purpose to build the conceptual, methodological and data foundations for analysing how European criminal justice systems prevent, investigate, prosecute and sanction corruption,…
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Digital Transformation and Corruption: BridgeGap Maps Where AI Helps, Where the Gaps Remain
The research report by Aleksej Heinze, Alfredo Jimenez, Julien Hanoteau and Virginie Vial (KEDGE Business School), with contributions from Joras Ferwerda (Utrecht University) sets out a clear picture of how digital transformation, and especially artificial intelligence, is being discussed in anti-corruption research. It shows an area showing a real dynamic, which still depends on stronger…
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Machine Learning Detects Corruption Risk in Public Procurement
A case study on Danish public procurement contracts, 2016–2022 A new study from Utrecht University tests whether machine learning models can identify corruption risk in public procurement before a contract is awarded. The research applies twelve algorithms to 20,777 Danish procurement contracts covering the period 2016 to 2022. Its central finding is that the right…
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Political Finance in Europe: What Makes Transparency Enforcement So Tricky? – Data Story
Nicolas Soto Troncoso and Sofia Angeli In January 2026, the 11th Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) adopted resolution 11/7 on preventing and combating corruption by enhancing transparency in the funding of political parties, electoral candidatures, and campaigns. The resolution, the first of its kind dedicated to Article…
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Interactive Tools for Integrity of Organizations Launched at OECD GACIF by Glasgow University Team
The BridgeGap WP4 University of Glasgow team launched at OECD GACIF a systems map of integrity management systems and a self-assessment Integrity Management Barometer (IMB). The systems’ map allows policy makers and regulators to follow the loops of vicious and virtual cycles of corruption, gaining perspective of key risk interactions. The IMB is an interactive…
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How Washington is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law – New Publication
BridgeGap team member Lucio Picci, together with Lorenzo Crippa and Edmund J. Malesky, has co-authored a new article in Foreign Affairs titled “How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law.” The piece examines how U.S. anticorruption enforcement — historically presented as neutral and rule-based — is increasingly being used as a strategic policy instrument in international economic…
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Epstein Files: Why is Europe More Affected than the US? – Data Story
Alina Mungiu Pippidi First and foremost, people can legitimately ask: what good are the corruption indexes — the CPI, the IPI, and the rest — if it seems that number 10 (US) exercises undue influence over corrupt officials in number 2 (Norway) and number 18 (UK, which in the IPI has already backslid next to…
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How is Russia’s War Reshaping the European Far-Right? – New Publication
A new paper by Adam Holesch and the IBEI-BridgeGap team follows the positions of Russia of European parties. In the early phase of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political unity in the European Parliament reached unusually high levels. Supporting Ukraine became the dominant norm, and deviating from it carried significant reputational and electoral costs. However,…