Public-sector corruption siphons trillions of dollars from the global economy and contributes
to social instability. Institutional Anomie Theory, with its focus on the links between social …

The Qatargate scandal has given the European Parliament (EP) an unusual degree of
media attention which its leaders would have done well to avoid. Some commentators have …

Executive Summary Summary of context: The ActEU project (" Activating European Citizens'
Trust in Times of Crises and Polarisation") has as one of its main missions to map and …

This paper examines the long-term impact of the economic crisis on citizens' trust towards
the EU. Political trust is expected to support the foundation of the institutions and, in this …

Corruption in business can be understood as a collective action problem: although many
businesses would rather not pay bribes, for any individual firm, refusing to pay them risks …

According to several scholars, the EU anti-fraud structure is inadequate for the amount of
fraud happening in the EU. Based on this scholarly debate this thesis sets out to investigate …