The Protection of the European Financial Interest: From Concrete Practices to Theoretical Recommendations

ABSTRACT

From September 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021, the BETKOSOL Project team carried out online and face-to-face qualitative interviews with representatives of the EU and MS institutions at national, regional, and local levels in different countries, as well as with representatives of selected trade unions and employers’ associations. For better knowledge and better solutions, the awareness of the protection of financial interests by relevant institutions has been a key issue running throughout the project. The article focuses on a comparison of the results of these qualitative interviews. The concluding remarks include some preliminary policy recommendations.

KEYWORDS:

• Financial interest
• protection
• institutional actors
• recommendations
• European Union

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

Full data is available on the BETKOSOL project website, working package no. 3, DATABOOK, https://betkosol.luiss.it/.

Additional information

Funding

The content upon which this work has been produced thanks to the support of the European Union HERCULE III programme under Grant Agreement no. [101015421.