Ecorys supports the European Commission with the fight against corruption

Corruption is detrimental to economic, social and political development. The estimated costs of corruption are immense and corruption violates fundamental principles of democracy. As a consequence, corruption threatens the stability of political systems, as it ultimately damages the rule of law and social justice. Frequent scandals in nearly all European countries illustrate that corruption poses a serious problem for EU Member States. 

For the next years, Ecorys will work alongside DG Home together with a network of local anti-corruption experts from all EU Member States. These experts will regularly report on and analyze anti-corruption developments in their countries. Beside this, Ecorys will support the organization of workshops under the EU anti-corruption experience-sharing program and will assist DG Home in its work in the framework of the European Semester of economic governance. 

The first year project activities started on 6 May 2019.