Podemos Discussion Session on Transparency
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:48+01:00Date: 12th April 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Date: 1, Plaza de la Asamblea, Madrid.
Backroom Brussels? Report calls for EU lobbying clampdown
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:48+01:00Nutra Ingredients | 06/04/2016 English - A transparency watchdog has called for legally-binding measures to tackle lobbying in the EU, following the release of its report that claimed permanent representations for member states were being left wide open to corporate pressure. Read more...
El Consejo de Transparencia tramitará las reclamaciones sobre el acceso a la información pública de los ciudadanos de Ceuta
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:49+01:00El 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...
Meeting with the General Secretary of PSOE
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:49+01:00Date: 31st March 2016 at 11 a.m. Date: Madrid
Member state offices in Brussels: wide open to corporate lobbyists
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:49+01:00Vita 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...
Series of Webinars with the candidates shortlisted for the OGP Steering Committee
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:50+01:00Date: 1st April 2016 at 10 a.m. Place: Online (Webex platform)
Big business enjoys ‘significant access’ to Irish officials in Brussels
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:51+01:00Irish 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...
Business access to Irish EU officials queried
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:51+01:00Irish 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....
Transparency groups target lobbying weak spot
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:10:51+01:00Politico | 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...
Member state offices in Brussels wide open to corporate lobbyists
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:04:12+01:00Brussels/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