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Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European Ombudsman
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
Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal
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
The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal
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
European Commission formalises commitment to public travel expenses
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
Más de 50 iniciativas se inscriben en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento en su primer mes de vida
La Vanguardia | 02/02/2018 Español - 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
Encuentro Hispano-Chileno sobre Transparencia
Fecha: 01/02/2018 Lugar: Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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