The European Commission has opted for a horizontal directive to protect whistleblowers at a EU level as from mid May 2021. The text includes a whistleblowing process by stages and a list of prohibited retaliation measures judging by the provisional version of whichEUROPE obtained a copy on Wednesday 18 April.
The Commission proposal follows strong insistence from the European Parliament in this regard, which adopted an own initiative report by Virginie Rozière (S&D, France), in which it...