Call for stricter lobby rules after Dalli Scandal Brussels, 5 November 2012 – Civil society groups have today written to the European Commission President urging him to end the secrecy around the resignation of the former Health and Consumer Commissioner John Dalli [1]. Campaign groups in the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) call on

The poor Transparency Register Brussels, 27 September 2012 – The quality of the EU Transparency Register is questionable, with a number of significant blind-spots in relation to the lobbying activities of major corporations, consultancies, law firms and trade associations.- Many of those who are the biggest spenders on EU lobbying according to the register, are in fact very minor players

The corporate-dominated EU Brussels, 25 September 2012 – A new report examines the composition of expert and advisory groups for DG Enterprise and Industry. This new research carried out by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) was launched at a joint event with the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour.

A video on the balance of expert groups Brussels, 17 September 2012 – Exclusive footage filmed for Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) – a steering committee member of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) – reveals how corporate lobbyists target the European Commission’s advisory groups in order to influence the legislative process at the earliest stage.

Taller sobre el lobby ciudadano y la regulación de los grupos de presión Access Info organiza un taller sobre el lobby ciudadano y la regulación de los grupos de presión, en Navacerrada, cerca de Madrid los días 3 (bienvenida) y 4 de septiembre. El lobby ciudadano La mala reputación del lobby es el resultado del frecuente coqueteo entre poderes políticos

Civil society demands a more transparent EU lobby register Madrid/Brussels, 23 July 2012 – Civil society organisations are fast making their opinions known on the EU’s one-year-old transparency register, calling for improvements to the information disclosed by interest groups so that citizens are able to identify who is lobbying the EU for what, and with what levels of success.