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Access Info Europe helps create the CONSUL Democracy Foundation

2020-01-29T10:40:21+01:00

22 March 2019 – Access Info Europe, together with civil society partners from across Europe, meeting today in Amsterdam, created a new foundation to promote citizen engagement in decision making using the CONSUL participation platform. The CONSUL Democracy Foundation will promote citizen participation worldwide and will oversee the use and development of the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL, a citizen participation tool currently in use by over 100 institutions in 35 countries. CONSUL is an open source platform, whose development was started by Madrid City Council in 2015 and has since been taken up and expanded by municipalities

Access Info Europe helps create the CONSUL Democracy Foundation2020-01-29T10:40:21+01:00

Access Info insiste a España que reconozca el acceso a la información como derecho fundamental

2019-04-17T10:56:17+02:00

Madrid, 11 abril 2019 – Tras las elecciones del próximo 28 de abril, el nuevo Gobierno tendrá que afrontar una de las tareas pendientes de España: la reforma de la débil ley de transparencia. Con el objetivo de cumplir las normas internacionales, el ejecutivo deberá reconocer el acceso a la información como un derecho fundamental, en línea con la jurisprudencia dictada por el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Con este fin, Access Info ha propuesto que España, en su nuevo Plan de Acción de Gobierno Abierto, se comprometa a la adopción de medidas como la eliminación de los requisitos de

Access Info insiste a España que reconozca el acceso a la información como derecho fundamental2019-04-17T10:56:17+02:00

España: Nuevo sistema para solicitudes sigue limitando el derecho de acceso a la información

2019-04-17T10:20:50+02:00

Madrid, 12 de abril de 2019 – El gobierno español ha anunciado un nuevo sistema de identificación para aquellos que deseen solicitar información con base a lo establecido en la Ley de Transparencia de 2013: necesitaras dar tu nombre, número de identificación español, correo electrónico y un número de teléfono móvil. Access Info Europe, organización promotora del derecho de acceso ubicada en Madrid, critica este sistema que discrimina a todos aquellos solicitantes que no sean ciudadanos o residentes en España, al igual que los que no posean un teléfono móvil. “El derecho de acceso a la información es un derecho

España: Nuevo sistema para solicitudes sigue limitando el derecho de acceso a la información2019-04-17T10:20:50+02:00

Members of European Parliament vote for transparency about who lobbies them

2020-01-29T11:06:57+01:00

With a difference of four votes, there is now more transparency in lobbying of Members of the European Parliament. The European Parliament voted for MEPs to publish online information about meetings with lobbyist on 31 January 2019. The vote had to be approved by at least 376 votes for an amendment to its Rules of Procedure. With a total of 630 members of the European Parliament, 380 were for the proposal, 224 against, and 26 abstained. Now whenever members of the European Parliament interact with lobbyist their scheduled meetings and notes must be published online. For more information: https://sven-giegold.de/groundbreaking-success-lobby-transparency/   

Members of European Parliament vote for transparency about who lobbies them2020-01-29T11:06:57+01:00

European Parliament leaders vote against spending transparency

2020-01-29T10:40:48+01:00

Madrid, 3 July 2018 – Access Info condemns the move by the European Parliament to keep secret details how Member of the European Parliament (MEPs) spend their general expenditure allowance, a lump sum amount of €4,342 per month. The vote on the evening of 2 July by the Bureau of the European Parliament, a body of 14 senior MEPs, which oversees budget and administration matters, voted down a proposal to increase transparency around the General Expenditure Allowance (GEA), which would have resulted in requiring receipts to be kept and checked and unspent funds to be returned. The 2 July

European Parliament leaders vote against spending transparency2020-01-29T10:40:48+01:00

Montenegro: Analysis of 2017 amendments finds that they seriously undermine the Law on Free Access to Information

2020-01-29T11:14:13+01:00

Access Info and MANS call for a working group on reform of the law, possibly as part of Montenegro’s re-established OGP process Madrid/Podgorica, 28 June 2018: Access Info Europe and MANS today called on the Montenegrin government to undo its 2017 amendments to Law on Free Access to Information (originally adopted in 2006) in order to bring it back into line with international standards. In an analysis of the Law also launched today, Access Info and MANS signalled that a particular concern is Article 1, newly added in 2017, which contains a series of class exclusions such

Montenegro: Analysis of 2017 amendments finds that they seriously undermine the Law on Free Access to Information2020-01-29T11:14:13+01:00

Polétika: Los Presupuestos Generales del Estado muestran un paso atrás en la lucha contra la desigualdad en esta legislatura

2018-11-13T10:06:27+01:00

» Polétika, una red de 500 organizaciones de la cual forma parte Access Info Europe, presenta el informe Pasos atrás en la legislatura del cambio » El informe alerta de que la paralización gubernamental y parlamentaria frena las políticas para reducir la desigualdad » La calidad democrática basada en la transparencia, la participación ciudadana y las libertades siguen siendo una asignatura a mejorar Madrid, 9 de mayo de 2018 - Polétika, la red de más de 500 organizaciones de la sociedad civil enfocadas a vigilar las iniciativas y compromisos adquiridos por los partidos políticos en la lucha contra la pobreza y

Polétika: Los Presupuestos Generales del Estado muestran un paso atrás en la lucha contra la desigualdad en esta legislatura2018-11-13T10:06:27+01:00
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