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European Parliament votes in favour of beneficial ownership transparency for fishing vessels
Madrid, 2 February 2017 - Access Info Europe welcomed today’s European Parliament plenary vote overwhelmingly in favour of a regulation that will introduce beneficial ownership transparency for EU fishing vessels. MEPs voted 586 in favour, with 56 against and just 6 abstentions, to create a public register of the EU flagged fishing fleet, something that will contribute to the fight
Access Info calls on Commission to publish travel expenses data proactively
Madrid, 31 January 2017 – Following a massive public response to Access Info’s campaign to crowd source requests for Commissioners’ expenses, the organisation has written to Vice President Frans Timmermans calling for the data to be proactively published. In under two days on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 January, a total of 119 people from across Europe submitted a total
Commission says that Juncker had to take an emergency air taxi when the Belgian air force let him down
Madrid, 27 January 2017 - A European Union spokesperson last night told Germany online publication Netzpolitik.org that the €63,126 that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spent on an air taxi from Turkey to Brussels in November 2015 was an emergency expense incurred the Belgian Air Force let them down on the planned flight home. Commission Spokesperson Alexander Winterstein wrote to
Wie hoch sind Oettingers Reisekosten? Anfrage-Kampagne will Abrechnungen von EU-Kommissaren offenlegen
Netzpolitik | 26/01/2017 Alemán - Die Organisation Access Info Europe ruft zur Übernahme von Anfragen an die EU-Kommission auf, um Reiseabrechnungen der EU-Kommisssare offenzulegen. Bisher war die Institution wenig transparent. Dabei ließ sich Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Juncker alleine einen Flug nach Antalya 63.000 Euro kosten. Leer más...
Call to publish commissioners’ travel expenses
Politico | 26/01/2017 Inglés - Campaigners are demanding that the European Commission release detailed travel costs of official trips taken by European commissioners. Access Info Europe, a NGO, is urging citizens and activists to make systematic document requests for the 2016 travel expenses of the 28 European commissioners. Leer más...
Request campaign launched for access to EU Commissioners’ travel expenses
Madrid, 26 January 2017 - Access Info Europe today launched a public campaign to crowd source access to EU documents requests to obtain full information on the spending by EU Commissioners on travel costs. CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMPAIGN! The campaign follows the discovery from a request by Access Info team member Alba Gutiérrez that