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Tres años de la Ley de transparencia: perspectiva de una activista

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

[Artículo publicado en el Número 5 de la Revista Española de la Transparencia] Alba Gutiérrez, Coordinadora de campañas Madrid, 26 de febrero de 2018 - El derecho de acceso a la información es esencial para la democracia y para el ejercicio de otros derechos básicos de las personas. Entre las finalidades y objetivos de la transparencia está el que los ciudadanos podamos conocer cómo se toman las decisiones o bajo qué criterios actúan nuestras instituciones. Sólo con un completo conocimiento de la información relevante es posible enjuiciar propuestas, formular alternativas y exigir una rendición de cuentas sobre cómo

Tres años de la Ley de transparencia: perspectiva de una activista2018-11-13T10:06:27+01:00

Negociaciones México-UE: una cláusula democrática “confidencial”

2018-11-13T09:44:16+01:00

Proceso | 22/02/2018 Español- Contrasta el tratamiento diferenciado que en Europa se le ha dado a las rondas de renegociaciones comerciales y políticas del acuerdo global entre México y la Unión Europea (UE). Mientras las comerciales fueron más o menos conocidas por el público y la prensa, las políticas, dentro de las cuales se discutió la importante cláusula democrática, destacaron por su hermetismo. Leer más...

Negociaciones México-UE: una cláusula democrática “confidencial”2018-11-13T09:44:16+01:00

Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European Ombudsman

2018-11-13T10:03:04+01:00

Madrid, 13 February 2018 – Access Info today welcomed the European Ombudsman recommendation that the Council of the European Union increase transparency of its legislative process in order to guarantee citizens’ right to hold their elected representatives to account and to participate in the democratic life of the EU. Two main findings of the Ombudsman’s inquiry into transparency of the Council, to which Access Info submitted a series of proposals in December 2017, are that the Council’s systematic failure to record the names of Member States along with their positions on legislative matters constitutes maladministration, and that there is over-classification

Greater transparency of Council legislative process, fundamental for representative democracy, says European Ombudsman2018-11-13T10:03:04+01:00

Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal

2019-11-07T10:28:33+01:00

Madrid, 8 February 2018 - The General Court of the European Union has ruled that the public does not have the right to access the European Commission’s legal advice on the March 2016 EU-Turkey agreement on returning migrants and asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey. The Commission had applied a series of exceptions to documents requested by Access Info Europe, documents that the court process revealed included late night emails between high level public officials discussing legal and political aspects of the controversial deal. The judgments shed further light on the scope and application by the EU Commission of the

Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal2019-11-07T10:28:33+01:00

The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal

2019-11-07T10:29:55+01:00

From 7 March 2016, the day when a pre-agreement with Turkey was reached, to 12 April 2016, when the deal was already under implementation, the European Commission consulted with its legal services on a wide range of issues related to the legality of the EU-Turkey agreement. These consultations resulted in a total of 11 documents – sometimes produced at late hours in the night – which were exchanged between the different actors involved in the making of the deal, accompanied with telephone conversations. Access to that information was challenged by Access Info Europe in two cases before the General Court

The documents in dispute: The European Commission’s legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal2019-11-07T10:29:55+01:00

European Commission formalises commitment to public travel expenses

2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

Madrid, 2 February 2018 - The European Commission has formalised its commitment, first pledged in September 2017, to make public the travel expenses of the Commissioners: on 31 January 2018 the new Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission was published and it confirms that mission expenses will be published every two months. This commitment in the new Code of Conduct comes exactly one year since, on 27 January 2017, Access Info launched a public campaign calling for publication of the Commissioners’ travel expenses. The campaign attracted media coverage, over both the lack of transparency and –

European Commission formalises commitment to public travel expenses2018-11-13T10:03:05+01:00

Más de 50 iniciativas se inscriben en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento en su primer mes de vida

2018-11-13T09:44:16+01:00

La Vanguardia | 02/02/2018 Español - Más de 50 iniciativas se han inscrito en sólo un mes, el primero de vida, en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, una herramienta que aprende de experiencias como la catalana, la pionera, con nueve lobbies inscritos en su primer año en funcionamiento. Leer más...

Más de 50 iniciativas se inscriben en el Registro de Lobbies del Ayuntamiento en su primer mes de vida2018-11-13T09:44:16+01:00
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