Spain blasted for corruption failings by EU

Spain blasted for corruption failings by EU

Spain has come under fire from the Council of Europe’s top anti-corruption body for failing to clean up its act – despite years of warnings and mounting pressure to get serious about political integrity. In a damning follow-up report published this week, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) strongly criticised the Spanish government for leaving key anti-corruption reforms ‘pending’… Source

Spain has much to improve in the fight against corruption. The Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) has published two follow-up reports assessing Spain's compliance with its recommendations to prevent corruption in relation to the senior executive functions of the central Government, the security forces, parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors.

The agency publishes a report on Spain that the Executive has been blocking for more than 16 months, and in a second text also expresses its concern about the politicization of the CGPJ Read

The Council of Europe has called on Spain to improve the regulation of conflicts of interest between...

The Council of Europe denounces the Spanish government's inaction against corruption and issues a warning about the lack of transparency and institutional control ...

The Spanish Government defends having “fully or partially” complied with most of the recommendations of the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) on the prevention of corruption, after the organization published two reports in which it emphasizes that the State has not “satisfactorily” implemented any of its suggestions.