• UK Government drops plans to restrict FOI

    UK Government drops plans to restrict FOI

    Madrid, 3 March 2016- Access Info Europe has welcomed the decision by the UK government to abandon its plan to undermine the UK FOI law through measures such as the introduction of fees for making requests or expanding the Cabinet veto on disclosure of information.

    This victory in defence of […]

  • Spain: Government goes to court to keep secret documents about … open government!

    Spain: Government goes to court to keep secret documents about … open government!

    Madrid, 9 February 2016 – The Spanish government has launched a court case against Spain’s Transparency Council to challenge a decision that it should release documents relating to the implementation of Spain’s two Open Government Partnership action plans.

    In November 2015, Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe, secured […]

  • Austria: Draft FOI law falls short of international standards

    Austria: Draft FOI law falls short of international standards

    Access Info/IPI analysis welcomes progress, but urges reforms to better guarantee right to information
    Madrid/Vienna, 8 February 2016 – Austria’s draft freedom of information (FOI) law requires significant further reforms in order to meet international standards governing transparency and the right to information, Access Info Europe and the Vienna-based International […]

  • Madrid City Hall Transparency Ordinance Sets a High Standard

    Madrid City Hall Transparency Ordinance Sets a High Standard

    Civil society recommends strengthening proactive publication and lobbying regulation
    Madrid, 29 enero 2016 – Madrid City Hall has prepared a high standard and comprehensive Transparency Ordinance which meets with civil society demands in areas such as proactive publication obligations, the right of access to information, and regulation of lobbies, according […]


Promoting Lobby Transparency
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Civil society expose holes in EU lobby transparency rules

This post was originally published by ALTER-EU.

Madrid/Brussels, 17 December 2015 – Research by ALTER-EU member groups Corporate Europe Observatory, Access Info Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe shows that well over 90 per […]

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Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws

This document sets out the classes of information that should be made available by public bodies in order to get a full picture of the influence of interest groups, particularly lobbyists, on governmental and […]

Making the EU more Transparent
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Civil society expose holes in EU lobby transparency rules

This post was originally published by ALTER-EU.

Madrid/Brussels, 17 December 2015 – Research by ALTER-EU member groups Corporate Europe Observatory, Access Info Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe shows that well over 90 per cent of meetings between DG […]

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Giegold Report Welcomed but Could Be More Ambitious Says Access Info

Madrid, 20 November 2015 – Access Info Europe today welcomed recommendations by Sven Giegold MEP, Rapporteur for the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, on greater transparency and accountability ofEU institutions, but has warned that they do not […]

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Access Info presents: The Berlaymont Snail!

It’s just like the good old days: the doorbell rings, and there is the postman with a registered letter – how exciting!! – you sign and open it, but nowadays you are more likely to find it’s a letter […]

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Promoting Access to Information in Spain
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Madrid City Hall Transparency Ordinance Sets a High Standard

Civil society recommends strengthening proactive publication and lobbying regulation
Madrid, 29 enero 2016 – Madrid City Hall has prepared a high standard and comprehensive Transparency Ordinance which meets with civil society demands in areas such […]

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