El Faro Digital | 05/04/2016 Spanish - El Consejo de Transparencia y Buen Gobierno tramitará las reclamaciones que, relacionadas con el derecho a saber, presenten en su territorio y contra resoluciones del Gobierno de Ceuta sus ciudadanos. Read more...
Date: 31st March 2016 at 11 a.m. Date: Madrid
Vita International | 30/04/2016 English- Corporate lobbyists enjoy widespread access to member state representations according to the first ever study on lobbying activities at national government offices in Brussels. Read more...
Date: 1st April 2016 at 10 a.m. Place: Online (Webex platform)
Irish Examiner | 29/03/2016 English - Big businesses have significant access to Brussels-based officials of the Irish Government to promote their corporate agenda, according to transparency campaigners. Read more...
Irish Examiner | 28/03/2016 English - Big businesses have significant access to Brussels-based officials of the Irish Government to promote their corporate agenda, according to transparency campaigners. Read more....
Politico | 23/03/2016 English - Transparency groups took aim Tuesday at what they say is a weak spot in the EU’s lobbying disclosure rules: the Brussels-based delegations of the bloc’s member countries. Read more...
Brussels/Madrid, 22 March 2016 – Corporate lobbyists enjoy widespread access to member state representations by exploiting loopholes in EU transparency rules according to the first ever study on lobbying activities at national government offices in Brussels.[1] The study, ‘National representations in Brussels: open for corporate lobbyists’ by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), reveals how these government missions to EU institutions are a target for big business lobbyists looking to promote their agendas. Vicky Cann, Corporate Europe Observatory, said:“This report demonstrates that there is a worrying level of corporate lobbying directed at the EU's permanent representations. These
Público | 21/03/2016 Spanish - Un estudio de ALTER-EU al que ‘Público’ ha accedido en primicia documenta cómo la mayoría de representaciones permanentes de los 28 en la capital belga aseguran no llevar un registro de sus reuniones con lobistas corporativos, ni les exigen que estén acreditados como tales ante la UE antes de encontrarse con ellos. Read more...
Madrid, 21 March 2016 - Access Info Europe has urged the European Ombudsman to recommend that the European Union immediately end its current practice of negotiating future legislation in secretive “trilogue” talks between the Council, Commission and Parliament. In a submission to the Ombudsman’s Public Consultation, Access Info cited the arguments of the EU’s own Advocate General in the case that led to Access Info’s 2013 victory against the Council before the European Court of Justice: ‘Legislating’ is, by definition, a law-making activity that in a democratic society can only occur through the use of a procedure that is