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ARROJANDO LUZ A LA FORMA EN QUE SE TOMAN LAS DECISIONES EN RESPUESTA A LA CRISIS HUMANITARIA EN EUROPA
MEP Julia Reda questions European Commission on postal address policy
Madrid, 12 February 2015 – A Member of the European Parliament, Julia Reda (Pirate Party, Germany), has filed a Parliamentary Question calling on the European Commission to provide justifications for its policy of refusing to register access to documents requests if citizens do not provide their personal postal address. Access Info Europe welcomes this investigation into the postal address policy,
Who Owns the Media? Sometimes No One Knows
This post was originally published in the Open Society Foundations website. London, 11 February 2015 - Southeastern Europe suffers from some of the world’s least transparent media ownership. In a Mapping Digital Media (MDM) report on Macedonia in 2012, Roberto Belicanec and Zoran Ricliev wrote that "there are no formal or legal requirements for media, other than broadcasters, to disclose
Tres de los cinco consejos de transparencia en España no son independientes
Zoom News | 03/02/2015 Spanish – El Consejo de la Transparencia estatal, el organismo que asegura que se cumplan los requisitos de transparencia y protege el derecho de acceso a la información pública de la ciudadanía, se constituyó este mes de enero con una directora elegida por el Ministerio de Hacienda, Ester Arizmendi, y otros siete vocales propuestos por sus instituciones
Taller: Open Government Parternship
29-30 de enero de 2015, La Haya, Holanda Andreas Pavlou will be attending the Open Government Partnership pilot workshop to discuss Spain's approach to open government, in The Hague, the Netherlands. More information on this event coming soon.
EU lobby register: still failing to deliver real transparency
Madrid/Brussels, 27 January 2015 - New research, published today, shows that the EU lobby register is failing to provide full transparency on lobbying as many financial lobbyists, major corporations, law firms and lobby consultancies that are actively working to influence EU law, are still not registered. The research by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), which is
Following the Money
20-21 de enero de 2015, Berlín, Alemania Helen Darbishire will be attending the 'Follow the Money' workshop organised by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, in Berlin, Germany. More information on this event here.