How Europe’s Retreat From Corporate Transparency is Shielding the Corrupt

The report examines how European Union member states have implemented "legitimate interest" limits and varied technical and bureaucratic barriers on access to Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) registries, providing country-specific examples (France, Hungary, Ireland, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Croatia, Portugal, Lithuania) and illustrating how these restrictions impede investigative journalism, enable corruption risks, and in one case contributed to a political resignation.