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28 Jun 2017

Why won’t Brussels release report on EU-wide corruption?

2018-11-13T09:45:02+01:00

Euronews | 28/06/2017 Inglés - Campaigners want to know why Brussels bureaucrats are refusing to release a report on fighting corruption. EU chiefs had promised to report every two years on how well countries in the bloc were battling graft. But, after its first report in 2014, there has been nothing. Leer más...

Why won’t Brussels release report on EU-wide corruption?2018-11-13T09:45:02+01:00
20 Jun 2017

Requesters appeal to EU Ombudsman for access to Commissioners’ expenses

2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00

Madrid, 20 June 2017 - Access Info Europe and 53 requesters from across Europe appealed to the European Ombudsman about the European Commissions’ failure to register, process, and respond to requests for the 2016 travel expenses of EU Commissioners submitted five months ago, in January 2017. The joint complaint highlights the Commission’s four major violations of the EU transparency rules: (1) the failure to even register 152 of the requests; (2) the failure to process 188 of the requests; (3) failing to respond to 51 appeals; (4) for outright refusals to process requests for President Juncker, the Vice President Timmermans,

Requesters appeal to EU Ombudsman for access to Commissioners’ expenses2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00
15 Jun 2017

Cyprus government flawed interpretation of European transparency standards

2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00

[UPDATE: Madrid, 11 December 2017 - On 25 April, the Cyptriot Government answered the letter sent by Access Info raising questions regarding to Cyprus Access to Information Law. You can find a copy of the letters here : ] Madrid, 15 June 2017 - Access Info Europe and six Cypriot civil society organisations [1] have raised concerns with the Cyprus government that the future draft access to information law would violate European standards if adopted in its current form. In particular, they warned the exceptions to transparency are seriously out of line with the Council of Europe Convention on Access

Cyprus government flawed interpretation of European transparency standards2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00
14 Jun 2017

Miten avoin EU on? Haastateltavana professori Päivi Leino-Sandberg

2018-11-13T09:45:03+01:00

Areena | 14/06/2017 Finés - Onko päätöksenteko EU:ssa avointa ja onko EU kehittymässä avoimempaan vai salailevampaan suuntaan. Ja mitä siitä käytännössä voi seurata, kun EU:n asetusta on noudatettava, vaikka esim. Suomen perustuslaki ovat ristiriidassa keskenään. Leer más...

Miten avoin EU on? Haastateltavana professori Päivi Leino-Sandberg2018-11-13T09:45:03+01:00
13 Jun 2017

Spain’s Transparency Lottery

2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00

[Article first published on eldiario.es (in Spanish)] Helen Darbishire, Executive Director Madrid, 13 June 2017 - If the person reading this article had to place a bet, which information would you say it’s easier to access: the salaries of advisers to the ministers or the documents that guide Spanish Cabinet discussions at its traditionally secretive weekly Friday meetings? What’s certain is that talking about transparency in Spain is like buying a lottery ticket: the lack of a government transparency policy makes obtaining information feel more playing roulette than exercising a fundamental right. In fact, Access Info managed to

Spain’s Transparency Lottery2018-11-13T10:03:19+01:00
13 Jun 2017

La Ley de Mortadelo

2018-11-13T09:45:03+01:00

El País | 13/06/2017 Español - A veces, la Ley de Transparencia parece estar en manos de Mortadelo y Filemón. Un particular, o una entidad como Access Info Europe, pide información a un organismo público sobre cuestiones relativamente inocentes como los gastos del festival de Eurovisión o las políticas de Gobierno Abierto. Leer más...

La Ley de Mortadelo2018-11-13T09:45:03+01:00