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European Civil Society Organisations Urge EU to Publish Anti-Corruption Reports
Madrid, 22 March 2017 – Access Info Europe, Transparency International EU, and 56 other civil society organisations have urged the Commission in an open letter not to abandon its leadership role in the fight against corruption, after it dropped the publication of long-awaited anti-corruption reports of all 28 Member States earlier this year. The letter, also being sent directly to
European Parliament Committee supports increase in decision-making transparency
Madrid, 22 March 2017 – Access Info Europe has cautiously welcomed this week’s adoption of the report on ‘Transparency, accountability and integrity in the EU institutions’ by the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee. The report by Sven Giegold MEP takes important steps to improve record keeping and decision-making transparency by calling for the Council to publish the position of member
Los nuevos españoles que nunca debieron serlo
El País | 21/03/2017 Español - Jesús E. G., dominicano, consiguió la nacionalidad española por residencia el 18 de noviembre de 2013. El Ministerio de Justicia consideró que cumplía los tres requisitos que se le piden a cualquier solicitante: un tiempo determinado de residencia legal en España, integración y buena conducta cívica. Ya era un español más. Leer más...
EU-Turkey agreement, one year later: lack of information blockading accountability
Madrid, 18 March 2017 – On the first anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, Access Info called for greater transparency of the decision making process of the agreement and condemned the inadequate record keeping and misleading statements. One year after concluding the agreement, stranded asylum seekers, human rights and humanitarian organisations, and the general public, are still denied even the most
One year later: what we (still don’t) know about the EU-Turkey agreement and accountability
Madrid, 18 March 2017 - As I sat at the Access Info Europe offices on the 1st of March reading the latest Order of the General Court of the European Union, I could not help but shake my head every other minute in disbelief. In a case brought by an Afghan refugee threatened with expulsion from Greece against the European
Parliament inaction on lobby transparency could sink register reform
[Article first published by the ALTER-EU] Madrid/Brussels, 17 March 2017 - The European Parliament must do more to improve lobby transparency, 100 civil society organisations urged in an open letter published today. MEPs were warned that the European Commission's current proposal for a revised EU Transparency Register would allow for even less scrutiny than the existing one, and that to