Madrid, 27 February 2014 – Access Info Europe today joined European civil society organisations campaigning for pledges from European Parliament election candidates to support the 10 point Charter of Digital Rights. This campaign is run EDRi, a network of European civil rights organisations defending digital rights. Between 22 and 25 May 2014, European Parliament elections will take place in 28 Member States. The next five years will be hugely important for digital rights, with legislation expected on copyright, cybercrime, data protection and surveillance. The campaign aims to put digital civil rights issues firmly on the agenda of the election campaigns

Brussels, 24-26 January 2014 – This year’s Hackathon of the European Parliament, attended by Access Info Europe and other activists and programmers, resulted in an interactive visualisation of MEP assets declarations. Other projects by participants included an application for analysing voting, an application for searching declarations of interests, and a website that allows you to see which subjects have been tackled by the EU parliament over the past legislature. At the Hackathon, Access Info took part in the project to visualise the assets declarations of MEPs, helping to create an informative and interactive visualisation for citizens to see how many

Madrid, 2 de octubre de 2013 – Acercándose las elecciones europeas de mayo de 2014, Access Info ha hoy escrito una carta a todos los 766 miembros del Parlamento Europeo informándoles de los resultados de una encuesta de opinión que muestra un enorme apoyo a la transparencia en áreas como la crisis financiera y el lobby empresarial. Más del 80% del público quiere una mayor transparencia en áreas tales como la toma de decisiones del Consejo, opiniones legales sobre futuras leyes y los gastos de los Fondos Europeos. Access Info también ha enviado a los parlamentarios recomendaciones del público que

Bruselas, 11 de julio de 2013 - El Parlamento Europeo ha conseguido que el Reglamento 1049/2001 sobre el acceso a los documentos de la UE vuelva a la agenda del grupo de trabajo sobre información del Consejo, tras un debate público y una propuesta de resolución que solicita a la Comisión Europea y a los Estados miembros a retomar las negociaciones. Las negociaciones sobre transparencia de la UE han quedado en punto muerto desde que la Presidencia danesa no consiguió negociar un acuerdo del Consejo en junio de 2012. Durante el debate llevado a cabo en el Parlamento el pasado

Access Info Europe applies to join key case at European Court of Justice  Madrid, 6 May 2013 – Access Info Europe has applied to the European Court of Justice to intervene in a case which is of great importance to the European public in the context of the financial crisis: the case is about whether we have a right to know what key EU bodies, such as the European Central Bank, know about the financial health of Eurozone Member States. In a letter to the Court sent on 6 May 2013, Access Info Europe asked for leave to intervene in

European poll reveals widespread concern about EU Transparency   Vast majority of people want more transparency, ethics and lobbying regulation Brussels, 31 January 2013 – A majority of people across Europe are concerned about ethics and lobbying in European Union policy-making, and want better regulation of lobbyists, as well as increased transparency of the EU, according to a new opinion poll. [1] The poll conducted by TNS opinion, and completed by over 6,000 people in six European countries, reveals that three quarters (73%) of respondents are concerned that lobbyists representing the business sector have too much influence