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Ombudsman asked to investigate refusal to publish legal advice on the legal basis for EU lobby register
Madrid/Brussels, 28 July 2017 – With upcoming negotiations on reforming the state of EU lobbying transparency imminent, the legal advice given to the Commission and Council on the legal basis for lobby reform is back under the spotlight following appeals this week to the EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly. Access Info Europe's and MEP Dennis de Jong's parallel complaints to the
Farce as Brussels blocks 195 requests for EU chief’s travel expenses
Euronews | 27/07/2017 Inglés - Transparency campaigners have slammed Brussels after a 1,178-day battle to find out how much EU chiefs spend on travel. Access Info Europe (AIE) wants to know how much Jean-Claude Juncker, Federica Mogherini and others spend on moving around for official business. Leer más...
Transparency of Commissioners’ travel expenses “disproportionate” says European Commission
Madrid, 27 July 2017 – Access Info has described as extremely regrettable that six months after 120 European citizens requested access to last year’s travel expenses of the 28 EU Commissioners, the Commission has taken a unilateral decision to disclose data just for January and February 2016, and that it will not contemplate any greater transparency. Furthermore, in response to
EU’s top court confirms that all documents held by European Commission fall under access to documents rules
Madrid, 21 July 2017 - Access Info Europe welcomed this week’s ruling from the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union, that the Commission cannot automatically refuse access to whole categories of documents in its possession. The Court confirmed that the EU institutions should always apply the EU’s access to documents rules to any documents they
Promoting Paris in Zagreb
[Post first published on the Open Government Partnership Blog] Helen Darbishire, Executive Director Zagreb, 20 July 2017 - “It’s really hard to have put a lot of effort into publishing a citizens’ budget and then to have only ten people click on it,” lamented one official in the Croatian Ministry of Finance. This is a classic challenge facing reformers
Interview to Helen Darbishire: When a Minister does not resign after scandal, there may well be consequences in the next elections
Nacional | 18/07/2017 Croata/ Traducido al inglés - Nacional: Why did you come in Croatia this time? The first time you were in Zagreb was in 1993 during the difficult wartime. How much did Zagreb and Croatia change since then? Helen: I first came to Zagreb in December 2013 for a meeting of journalists, organized by the Council of Europe,