On Thursday 14 June, MEPs drew up a very negative balance sheet of the progress made in the fight against corruption in the EU. During an oral question submitted by the budgetary control committee, MEPs asked the Commission why it had been late in publishing its “EU anti-corruption reports” and called on the latter to resume this exercise.
It should be pointed out that the Commission devised an anti-corruption programme in 2011. The first report was published in 2014 but in 2017 the...