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» In only 2 out of 20 countries analysed is it possible to know who really owns the media. » In 10 out of 20 countries not even the media regulators know who really owns the print media and for online media this figure drops to 6. Madrid, 4 March 2014 – Today Access Info Europe is opening for signature
Access Info files complaint before EU Ombudsman on procurement transparency in Serbia
Madrid, 4 March 2015 - Access Info Europe has criticised the European Commission’s refusal to provide full disclosure of an evaluation document about the procurement process for a water sewage plant in Serbia, in a complaint sent today to the European Ombudsman.
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If we do not know who the owners of media companies are, it is impossible to take steps to address excessive media concentrations and conflicts of interest. For example, prior to amendments in the law requiring disclosure of media ownership in 2011, the leading national broadcasters in Georgia were seen as mouthpieces of government and their real owners were
Access Info Europe y Civio se reúnen con el recién formado Consejo de la Transparencia
Madrid, 16 de febrero de 2015 - Access Info Europe y Civio han mantenido una reunión con el Consejo de la Transparencia de España con el objetivo de presentarse formalmente y poner en común reflexiones y posibles mejoras a la ley de transparencia y su implementación. El Consejo de la Transparencia empezó a trabajar el mismo día de entrada en
MEP Julia Reda questions European Commission on postal address policy
Madrid, 12 February 2015 – A Member of the European Parliament, Julia Reda (Pirate Party, Germany), has filed a Parliamentary Question calling on the European Commission to provide justifications for its policy of refusing to register access to documents requests if citizens do not provide their personal postal address. Access Info Europe welcomes this investigation into the postal address policy,
Who Owns the Media? Sometimes No One Knows
This post was originally published in the Open Society Foundations website. London, 11 February 2015 - Southeastern Europe suffers from some of the world’s least transparent media ownership. In a Mapping Digital Media (MDM) report on Macedonia in 2012, Roberto Belicanec and Zoran Ricliev wrote that "there are no formal or legal requirements for media, other than broadcasters, to disclose
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