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PRESS RELEASE
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
 Ref. CG058(2024)
International Anti-Corruption Day 2024: Local authorities uniting with youth against corruption
“Corruption undermines governance at all levels, but it is at the local level that its impact is most directly felt by people. It is also at this level that we must decisively foster transparency and accountability if we want to regain public trust in our democratic institutions.
“We can only succeed if young people are mobilised for integrity. We need to invest in them and empower them. In the Congress a generation of young leaders have emerged. Their voice helps to break with practices of favouritism, nepotism and vested interests, which endanger our democracies.
“The Congress has championed good governance and prevention of corruption at local and regional levels for decades, in particular through the monitoring of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, promotion of public ethics, transparency, open government and civic participation.
“Now that the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) of the Council of Europe is about to start the monitoring of anti-corruption at the subnational level in 2025, the synergy and partnership between the Congress and GRECO are essential to progress with integrity and preventing corruption at local and regional levels across Europe. In this context the Congress will actively support the involvement of youth and civil society in the anti-corruption efforts.”
Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
Institutional Communication Unit
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is an institution of the Council of Europe, responsible for strengthening local and regional democracy in its 46 member states. Composed of two chambers – the Chamber of Local Authorities and the Chamber of Regions – and three committees, it brings together 612 elected officials representing more than 130 000 local and regional authorities.
President of the Congress: Marc Cools (Belgium, ILDG), President of the Chamber of Local Authorities: Bernd Vöhringer (Germany, EPP/CCE), President of the Chamber of Regions: Cecilia Dalman Eek (Sweden, SOC/G/PD).
Political groups: Group of Socialists, Greens and Progressive Democrats (SOC/G/PD), Group of the European Peoples Party (EPP/CCE), Independent Liberal and Democratic Group (ILDG), European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR).
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