REFUGIADOS Y MIGRACIONES
ARROJANDO LUZ A LA FORMA EN QUE SE TOMAN LAS DECISIONES EN RESPUESTA A LA CRISIS HUMANITARIA EN EUROPA
Negociaciones México-UE: una cláusula democrática “confidencial”
Proceso | 22/02/2018 Español- Contrasta el tratamiento diferenciado que en Europa se le ha dado a las rondas de renegociaciones comerciales y políticas del acuerdo global entre México y la Unión Europea (UE). Mientras las comerciales fueron más o menos conocidas por el público y la prensa, las políticas, dentro de las cuales se discutió la importante cláusula democrática, destacaron
Charla sobre Gobierno Abierto 2018: La agenda que viene
Fecha: 20/02/2018 de 18:00 a 20:30hrs Lugar: Medialab Prado, Madrid
Jornada «Mis Datos, Tus Datos, Nuestros Datos»
Fecha: 14/02/2018 Lugar: Media Lab Prado, Madrid
Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European Ombudsman
Madrid, 13 February 2018 – Access Info today welcomed the European Ombudsman recommendation that the Council of the European Union increase transparency of its legislative process in order to guarantee citizens’ right to hold their elected representatives to account and to participate in the democratic life of the EU. Two main findings of the Ombudsman’s inquiry into transparency of the
Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal
Madrid, 8 February 2018 - The General Court of the European Union has ruled that the public does not have the right to access the European Commission’s legal advice on the March 2016 EU-Turkey agreement on returning migrants and asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey. The Commission had applied a series of exceptions to documents requested by Access Info Europe,
The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal
From 7 March 2016, the day when a pre-agreement with Turkey was reached, to 12 April 2016, when the deal was already under implementation, the European Commission consulted with its legal services on a wide range of issues related to the legality of the EU-Turkey agreement. These consultations resulted in a total of 11 documents – sometimes produced at late