Bishops call on EU Tax Summit: stop tax fraud, force corporate transparency

All companies that receive public subsidies must meet strict transparency requirements, tax rules should be strengthened.

CIDSE demands on corporate transparency met by European legislators

Campaigners celebrated as the European Parliament and European Council met key demands of the coalition on corporate transparency, Publish What You Pay. CIDSE has demanded changes to the Accounting and Transparency directives which will require oil, gas, mining and forestry companies listed on European stock exchanges to publish what they pay governments. This country-by-country-reporting will improve the possibility of local campaigners to learn what their governments are paid by European and transnational companies.

Dear European Union, you are almost there..

Together with the Publish What You Pay coalition, Friends of the Earth Europe and other NGOs, CIDSE launched a Europe-wide advert in the Financial Times calling on the European Union to seize a historic opportunity to pass European transparency laws for oil, gas, mining and logging companies.

Plus de transparence,un remède contre la "malédiction des ressources"?

Retour sur les enjeux et les espoirs suscités par le vote de la Commission des Affaires juridiques du Parlement européen sur la révision des Directives Transparence et Comptabilité proposée par la Commission européenne dans cet article de Stefan Reinhold.

Mexico G20 Summit: CIDSE recommendations

Time to hold the G20 to account - CIDSE recommendations to the G20 Summit (Los Cabos, Mexico, 18-19 June 2012)

Tough EU transparency laws could change lives in resource-rich Congo