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Drawing immediate return fire, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Italians, whose country is caught in a vortex of instability and political volatility, need to be less corrupt, work harder and stop blaming the European Union for problems in...
The Spanish government is currently discussing a combined anti-corruption and whistleblower protection law. While this would be an important step into the right direction for a country which has suffered multiple large-scale corruption scandals in recent years, the current...
Undaunted by death threats, a former municipal worker uncovered a pattern of corruption. Her revelations helped bring down the government of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, forced out by a no-confidence vote in Parliament on 1 June, 2018. Ana Garrido,...
Luxembourg’s Court of Appeal has ruled that former PwC employee Antoine Deltour, convicted of a breach of law for leaking documents about the country’s notorious tax avoidance schemes that benefitted big companies won’t be sentenced and ordered him to...
Even as the CEO of Barclay’s Bank has managed to keep his job after trying to root out the source of a disclosure , the European Commission has proposed stronger laws to provide protection for whistleblowers reporting wrongdoing. People who...
Barclay’s Chief Executive Jes Staley will be fined by regulators who also reprimanded him for using the bank’s security apparatus to try to find a whistleblower who raised concerns about the recruitment of one of his friends, Tim Main,...
He spent two years in jail not for committing a crime, but reporting one – that of torture – and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou’s story of how it happened, turned into a book also launched in Greece, had an...
Blueprint has launched it's Working with Whistleblowers Initiative. We are developing the first international guidelines for journalists working with whistleblowers in the digital age.
Public Statement by Blueprint for Free Speech In a historic step toward effective to protect whistleblowers around the globe, the European Commission published its proposed new European Directive on Whistleblowing this week. The initiative comes after two years of intense...
After months of disagreement and debate that resembled a political soap opera, French lawmakers finally granted expanded rights to employees who report threats to the public interest. However, it remains to be determined how well the French law will...
A former anti-money laundering investigator on Malta, Jonathan Ferris, who says he has knowledge of massive wrongdoing, will sue to get whistleblower protection he said was deliberately blocked by the government with a scandal reaching Prime Minister's Joseph Muscat's...
The murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, who was looking into fraud tied to the government and organized crime led Prime Minister Robert Fico to step down but tens of thousands protesters in the streets of the capital Bratislava...