Blog – Page 31 – Access Info Europe

Letter to European Parliament with Statement on killing of Jan Kuciak

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:38:35+01:00

Madrid/Brussels, 13 March 2018 Dear Member of the European Parliament In advance of tomorrow's parliamentary debate on the killing of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, please find below a statement signed by 61 civil society organisations from across Europe and elsewhere expressing their concern about the fact that his investigation may have been exposed after he submitted request for information, and calling on the European Union to take action to help protect journalists and all those who exercise their fundamental right of access to information. More details can be found in this story by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting

Letter to European Parliament with Statement on killing of Jan KuciakHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:38:35+01:00

European Commission starts publishing travel expenses proactively

Helen Darbishire2019-11-04T17:11:42+01:00

Madrid, 2 March 2018 – Access Info Europe has welcomed today the start of proactive publication of EU Commissioners travel expenses as a positive step towards greater transparency and accountability of spending of public funds. Proactive publication of this information had been a crucial demand of Access Info, which has led a campaign for greater transparency of travel expenses since 2014. Finally, in September 2017 the European Commission had announced changes to Commissioners’ code of conduct that would require publication of these expenses every two months. Since Wednesday (28 February 2018), the information is publicly available online, although it’s not

European Commission starts publishing travel expenses proactivelyHelen Darbishire2019-11-04T17:11:42+01:00

Negociaciones México-UE: una cláusula democrática “confidencial”

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:09+01:00

Proceso | 22/02/2018 Spanish- 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 por su hermetismo. Read more...

Negociaciones México-UE: una cláusula democrática “confidencial”Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:09+01:00

Seminar on Open Government 2018: its future agenda

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00

Date: 20/02/2018 from 18:00 to 20:30hrs Place: Medialab Prado, Madrid

Seminar on Open Government 2018: its future agendaHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00

Conference “My Data, Your Data, Our data”

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00

Date: 14/02/2018 Place: MediaLab Prado, Madrid

Conference “My Data, Your Data, Our data”Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00

Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European Ombudsman

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:04+01:00

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 Council, to which Access Info submitted a series of proposals in December 2017, are that the Council’s systematic failure to record the names of Member States along with their positions on legislative matters constitutes maladministration, and that there is over-classification

Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European OmbudsmanHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:04+01:00

Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

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, documents that the court process revealed included late night emails between high level public officials discussing legal and political aspects of the controversial deal. The judgments shed further light on the scope and application by the EU Commission of the

Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey dealHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

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 hours in the night – which were exchanged between the different actors involved in the making of the deal, accompanied with telephone conversations. Access to that information was challenged by Access Info Europe in two cases before the General Court

The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey dealHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

European Commission formalises commitment to public travel expenses

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

Madrid, 2 February 2018 - The European Commission has formalised its commitment, first pledged in September 2017, to make public the travel expenses of the Commissioners: on 31 January 2018 the new Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission was published and it confirms that mission expenses will be published every two months. This commitment in the new Code of Conduct comes exactly one year since, on 27 January 2017, Access Info launched a public campaign calling for publication of the Commissioners’ travel expenses. The campaign attracted media coverage, over both the lack of transparency and –

European Commission formalises commitment to public travel expensesHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

Más de 50 iniciativas se inscriben en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento en su primer mes de vida

Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00

La Vanguardia | 02/02/2018 Spanish - Más de 50 iniciativas se han inscrito en sólo un mes, el primero de vida, en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, una herramienta que aprende de experiencias como la catalana, la pionera, con nueve lobbies inscritos en su primer año en funcionamiento. Read more...

Más de 50 iniciativas se inscriben en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento en su primer mes de vidaHelen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:41:10+01:00