BridgeGap

🚨 New BridgeGap Deliverable Report Out: Deliverable 4.1 – Case Studies of Best Practice and Critical Incidents at Organisational Level Responding to (Trans)national Risks 🚨 Proud to share our latest contribution to the Horizon Europe BRIDGEGAP project, where we examine organisational integrity management systems (IMSs) across five sectors at high risk of corruption: defence, critical infrastructure, healthcare, professional sport, and banking. Through case studies including the Leonardo bribery investigations, the UK Post Office Horizon IT scandal, Novartis Hellas procurement and whistleblowing irregularities, and anti-money laundering failures in Operation Clean Hands in Belgian football and in the Nordic Nordea Bank, we explore how formal compliance often masks deep systemic weaknesses. Across the critical incidents shown in these cases, belief systems are symbolic, boundary rules ambiguous, diagnostic metrics misaligned, and interactive mechanisms largely absent. We have also identified sectoral specificities along a public value to private value dominant spectrum, with most transparency and more compliance at the edge of the spectrum and more nuanced and negotiated a terrain in the middle. The report moves beyond critique to propose actionable reforms: cross-jurisdictional debarment, integrity-driven procurement, sector-specific regulation, and whistle-blower protections that function in reality -not just in theory or legislation. 📌 Key takeaway: in high-risk sectors, integrity must be a dynamic system -embedded, adaptive, and enforced, where organisations' and organisational intermediaries' buy-in is essential. #IntegrityManagement #Anticorruption #Governance #BRIDGEGAP #HorizonEurope #PublicValue #EthicsInPractice #Whistleblowing #Transparency #CaseStudies #HighRiskSectors Thanks to my University of Glasgow colleagues Denisse Rodriguez-Olivari, Alvise Favotto, Georgios Kominis and Bernhard Reinsberg for their timely and intellectually stimulating input. Thanks are also due to our BridgeGap consortium members, too, especially Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Massimo Privitera and our three reviewers, for providing such a dynamic & inspiring environment for this work! https://lnkd.in/ecHvPC-n

📑 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐆𝐚𝐩 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠 🇪🇺 EU Funding in Times of Crisis: Swiftness vs Accountability? As the EU deploys large funding instruments to respond to crises, questions resurface about oversight, transparency, and the risks of misuse. This piece examines lessons from Structural Funds, the RRF, and the debate around the new SAFE instrument. 🔗 Read the article: https://lnkd.in/dEBggMhz #BridgeGap #EUFunds #Governance #Accountability #AntiCorruption Massimo Privitera (University of Antwerp)

Following two roundtables and a full day of review of anticorruption regulation across EU member states, accession countries and EEA countries we conclude with Luca Forteleoni from the Italian anticorruption authority ANAC that who needs the EU directive on anticorruption most are those who fight corruption in some EU countries. They are hindered in its absence both by the increasing cross-border character of many corruption crimes, and by the erosion of political support domestically. Anticorruption activists, as we agreed with professor Alberto Vannuci from the University of Pisa do not harbor illusions that the EU directives would neccessarily have an impact- often the price of passing such regulation is its reduction to the lowest common denominator, well below the threshold of potential impact. But they hope that the directive would in the least set a norm- that MPs in Germany cannot profit from conflict of interest more than MPs in France, for instance- but also hopefully would help aggregate a truly pan-European anticorruption community, supported by Brussels against reactionary forces on the home front. With many thanks to guests, speakers, students and in particular the law experts who helped review the mapping instrument of 'who needs Europanization' and the data from so many countries. The #BridgeGap website will acknowledge all the contributions when #EUCAL goes live in a couple of months!

📅 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 | 30 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 2025 (16:00–19:00 𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐓) Luiss Guido Carli University and BridgeGap are hosting a high-level debate on how #Europe can strengthen its fight against #corruption — from legal frameworks to effective enforcement. The discussion features experts from ANAC, Luiss, and the Universities of Pisa, Reims, Castilla-La Mancha, and Cologne, examining current challenges and policy options to advance integrity across the European Union. 🔗 Join the LinkedIn Live stream: https://lnkd.in/dbeMf7ax 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dPY5Apry #BridgeGap #AntiCorruption #Governance #EUIntegrity #HorizonEurope #PublicPolicy

Join us on 30 October 2025 (16:00–19:00 CEST) for a debate hosted by Luiss Guido Carli University and BridgeGap on how #Europe can strengthen its fight against #corruption — from legal frameworks to enforcement. 🗣️ With experts from ANAC, Luiss, University of Pisa, Reims, Castilla-La Manchaand Cologne. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dPY5Apry

🎙️ 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐆𝐚𝐩 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 #6 | 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 📅 20 November 2025 | Online 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/d9MuE4zW Join us for the next BridgeGap work-in-progress seminar, exploring how experimental designs help reveal how integrity frameworks operate in practice. 👩🏫 Speakers: ▶️ Iva Parvanova, PhD (Luiss Guido Carli University) – on lab experiments testing the effectiveness of integrity mechanisms. ▶️ Massimo Privitera (University of Antwerp) – on survey experiments combining vignettes and conjoint analysis to explore what drives whistleblowing. #BridgeGap #AntiCorruption #Integrity #Research #Transparency #HorizonEurope

🙏 Thank you to all participants — in person and online — who joined last Thursday’s dialogue with Alberto Alemanno and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. It was an engaging exchange on #QatarGate, transparency, and the path toward a more accountable #Europe 🇪🇺 #Accountability #Transparency #EUgovernance #BridgeGap #LUISS