EU Whistleblowing Monitor - Roundup of Updates December 2025
Date Published: 18 December 2025
Tracking Implementation of EU Directive 2019/1937
Status of Transposition – December 2025
Approximately four years after the deadline, all 27 Member States have now passed whistleblower protection legislation to transpose Directive 2019/1937 into their national legal systems. However, none can yet be considered fully compliant. The European Commission issued infringement proceedings early against most Member States, with multiple cases referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and significant fines imposed for delays. The Commission’s conformity report is now published, but no enforcement action has yet followed.
Key Developments:
- Government plans to dismantle Whistleblower Protection Office in Slovakia alarms the EU and civil society, but is halted by the national Constitutional Court pending full review
- New whistleblowing authority launched in Spain, new whistleblowing authority launched, government commitment pledges funding and civil society alarmed at reforms to Anti-Fraud Agency
- Further amendments to the whistleblower protection law in Bulgaria
- New whistleblowing guidelines adopted in Italy
- Whistleblowers in Ireland publish reprisal complaints on EU Portal
- German Labour Court dismisses whistleblowing case, and new study reveals limited enforcement impact of whistleblowing office
- EU Report highlights lack of whistleblower cases in Estonia, civil society side-Report also flags weaknesses
- Unions call for stronger protections in France, journalist awarded for investigation, courts confirm causation test, upholds annulment of reprisals, civil society alarmed at investigation risk, Defence whistleblower disputes dismissal
Featured Resources:
- New Resource from Transparency International (TI) and TI Ireland: Monitoring Internal Monitoring Systems: A Framework for collecting data and reporting on performance and impact
- Transparency International’s Ireland 2025 Speak Up report examining data from its national advice line and survey on attitudes to whistleblowing
- New Guide for journalists and whistleblowers, Publicising an alert: media coverage for journalists and whistleblowers, from La Maison des Lanceurs d’Alerte
- Two new Monitor webinars available to watch: What CSOs need to know about whistleblower protection and Trade Union Insights on whistleblowing in the EU.
- The Network of European Integrity and Whistleblowing Authorities and Slovak Whistleblower Protection Office’s Comparative Analysis of Models on following up on whistleblower reports
- The International Labour Organisation’s Global Survey on protecting whistleblowers in the public service
- Practical Guide on corruption for whistleblowers in Spain
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