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‘Polétika’: participación y vigilancia ciudadana

2018-11-13T10:04:48+01:00

El Huffinton Post | 06/07/2015 Spanish – Para muchos políticos la vida política de la ciudadanía está acotada y debe seguir así. Es trabajo de los profesionales. Se limita a la reflexión de una jornada y al ejercicio de voto en urna. Nada más lejos que desmerecer este acto, que tanto, tanto, costó y que hay que mantener en libertad y en verdad. Sin embargo, muchas personas piden y esperan más. Read more...

‘Polétika’: participación y vigilancia ciudadana2018-11-13T10:04:48+01:00

Corrupción y opacidad, los males de Grecia

2018-11-13T10:04:48+01:00

Compromiso Empresarial | 03/07/2015 Spanish – Además del gasto incontrolado en el sector público, el Estado griego asumió el sobrecoste de grandes obras, como la celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas en 2004, cuyo presupuesto final  de 14.000 millones de euros, un 5,9% de su PIB, supuso el doble del coste inicial. De esta manera, en 2009 el déficit griego alcanzó el 13,6% del PIB, aunque de cara a las instituciones de la UE se maquillaron los datos, para que oficialmente el déficit apareciera por debajo del 7%. Read more...

Corrupción y opacidad, los males de Grecia2018-11-13T10:04:48+01:00

Access Info condemns sabotage of Hungarian FOI law

2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

Madrid, 1 July 2015 - Access Info Europe today condemned the proposal by the Hungarian government to amend the Freedom of Information Act in ways that would seriously limit the exercise of the right of access to information in Hungary. Hungarian civil society is reacting strongly to the proposal put by the government to an accelerated decree process in parliament which would result in arbitrary fees for searching for data and for copying and delivering it.[1] Other concerns are that the new rules would permit refusal of requests on the grounds that documents are “preparatory” or the copyright of third

Access Info condemns sabotage of Hungarian FOI law2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws

2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

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 legislative decision making. You can download the report in PDF and in Word . If you have any comments about the contents of this report, we are happy to hear from you. For a member of the public to be able to follow how a particular decision is being or was taken, it is essential that there be full transparency about the influences which shaped that

Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws2018-11-13T09:46:14+01:00

New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble

2020-01-29T11:07:19+01:00

Madrid, 25 June 2015 - The RTI community celebrated this week the launch of two groundbreaking online tools that enable citizens to monitor the interactions between high-level European Commission officials and lobbyists in the Brussels bubble: » LobbyFacts.eu, created by ALTER-EU's Corporate Europe's Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, and relaunched last week, is a site that delivers easy access to data from the EU Transparency Register, allowing you to compare entries over time and to sort and rank the data contained in the EU's (still voluntary) Transparency Register; » IntegrityWatch.eu, created by the Transparency International EU office,

New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble2020-01-29T11:07:19+01:00

Victoria Anderica: “Queremos crear una ordenanza que obligue a dar la máxima información”

2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00

eldiario.es | 26/06/2015 Spanish – El Ayuntamiento de Madrid, liderado por Manuela Carmena, ha nombrado a la activista Victoria Anderica directora del proyecto de transparencia, dependiente de la Concejalía de Participación Ciudadana, Transparencia y Gobierno Abierto, responsabilidad de Pablo Soto. Anderica, licenciada en Derecho y con un máster en Comunicación, Cultura y Ciudadanía Digitales, ha trabajado durante cinco años en el proyecto Access Info, donde destaca su labor de lobby para la aprobación de la ley de transparencia en España. Read more...

Victoria Anderica: “Queremos crear una ordenanza que obligue a dar la máxima información”2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00

European Commission urged to act to improve transparency

2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00

Madrid, 24 June 2015 – In a letter to European Commission Vice-President Timmermans as part of an ongoing dialogue, Access Info Europe has called for action to improve EU transparency in law and in practice. The pro-transparency organisation stressed the urgent need to bring the EU’s access to documents rules into line with international standards, and raised concerns about problems accessing key documents, as observed in responses to requests submitted on the AsktheEU.org platform. Access Info’s analysis of the EU’s access to documents Regulation 1049/2001 using the RTI Rating, found that although it scores a solid 96 out of 150,

European Commission urged to act to improve transparency2018-11-13T10:04:49+01:00
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