In September 2017 the European Parliament published a report on “Corruption in the European Union”. The countries studied were Finland, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. Placed under scrutiny were the level of corruption perceived by citizens, the judicial, institutional and political framework, as well as the best practices enacted at the national, regional and local level. In December of the same year the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties put to work a group for monitoring the situation of rule of law in the EU, with particular focus on the corruption of freedom of information, after the murder of anti-corruption journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta and Ján Kuciak in Slovakia. Led by Sophia in ‘t Veld (ALDE, Netherlands), its mandate should conclude on December 31st this year. Also taking part are MEPs Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT), Josef Weidenholzer (S&D, AT), Anders Primdahl Vistisen (ECR, DK), Judith Sargentini (Greens, NL), Barbara Spinelli (GUE, IT) and Laura Ferrara (EFDD, IT).