As announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in September (see EUROPE B13021A3), the Commission proposed new rules on Wednesday 3 May to harmonise the fight against corruption between Member States by recasting the different existing tools: the Council Framework Decision 2003/568 and the Convention on Officials of the European Communities and of the Member States into one new directive.
While corruption is estimated to cost around €120 billion in the EU each year...