Date: 3rd September 2015, 15:00-17:00 Location: European Parliament, Brussels
SigmaLive | 03/08/2015 Greek – Μέχρι τα μέσα Οκτωβρίου ολοκληρώνεται το νομοσχέδιο για πρόσβαση σε δημόσια έγγραφα και πληροφορίες, δήλωσε στο SigmaLive, o Υπουργός Δικαιοσύνης, Ιωνάς Νικολάου. Σημειώνεται ότι, Kύπρος και Λουξεμβούργο αποτελούν τις μοναδικές χώρες στην Ευρώπη που στερούν από τους πολίτες τους το θεμελιώδες δικαίωμα της δημόσιας πρόσβασης σε πληροφορίες και έγγραφα που κατέχουν δημόσιες αρχές και κρατικά ιδρύματα. Read more...
Madrid, 27 July 2015 – Access Info Europe, the Open Society European Policy Institute, and Publish What You Fund have sent a letter endorsed by 50 organisations from around the world, calling on Members of the European Parliament to encourage the European Union to sign up to the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP is a 65-country multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together champions of democratic reform from governments, parliaments, international organisations, civil society and the private sector. Its members include 20 EU member states, 5 candidate countries and another 9 European Neighbourhood countries. The letter emphasises the benefits that OGP
Madrid, 30 July 2015 – Access Info Europe has urged the government of Cyprus to greatly improve its draft access to information law in order to meet basic international transparency standards. An analysis of the draft text using the Right to Information Rating indicators found that Cyprus would come in at position 97 of 102 countries globally, scoring a dismal 57 of 150 points. It would not be able to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents. In a submission sent to the Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou, the pro-transparency organisation recommended significant amendments to
Cyprus Mail| 30/07/2015 English – Access Info Europe, a human rights organisation dedicated to promoting and protecting the right of access to information in Europe as a tool for defending civil liberties and human rights, has urged the government of Cyprus to greatly improve its draft freedom of information (FOI) law in order to meet basic international transparency standards. Read more...
El Boletin.com| 30/07/2015 Spanish – La pasada semana, el Defensor del Pueblo Europeo pidió al Consejo de la Unión Europea que respondiera a las denuncias de dos plataformas pro-transparencia, Access Info Europe y la Public Interest Clinic, que reclamaron información sobre los procesos de selección para el nombramiento de jueces en el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) Read more...
Madrid, 27 July 2015 – The European Ombudsman last week called on the Council of the European Union to respond to allegations made by Access Info Europe and the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic that it wrongly refused access to information on selection processes used for judges entering the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The EU Clinic originally requested access to the opinions of the panel that examines all judicial candidates put forward by the Member States for the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU. The information was denied on the basis that
Cuarto Poder | 17/07/2015 Español– El intento de llevar algo de transparencia a las actividades de presión en las instituciones europeas parece estar teniendo sus primeros frutos. Hasta el momento, 8.052 son las asociaciones, empresas y profesionales lobistas registrados en la Comisión Europea, aunque son muchas más las que realizan actividades de presión en la institución europea, pero el carácter voluntario del registro permite no aparecer en esta lista. Leer más…