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Legal Leaks Challenge: Write Your Access To Information Story

2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Madrid, 24 July 2014 – As part of the Legal Leaks trainings which has taken place during the month of June in five different countries in the Balkans – Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia -, Access Info Europe and UNESCO, in partnership with the EU Commission, has organised a challenge for journalists taking part in these courses. What is the challenge about? Journalists shall write a story based on one or more access to information requests they have previously made. The article will have to be written in English, and will be a maximum of 2000 words

Legal Leaks Challenge: Write Your Access To Information Story2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Legal Leaks trainings: enhancing media accountability in the Balkans

2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Madrid, 2 June 2014 – UNESCO and Access Info Europe will be carrying out a series of Legal Leaks trainings during the following month of June in five different Balkans countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. The Legal Leaks trainings are meant to empower journalists to use their national freedom of information laws as a regular part of their work. The training provides guidance on how to file freedom of information requests and contributes to protect media freedom by delivering techniques by which journalists can protect the security of their data and of confidential sources of

Legal Leaks trainings: enhancing media accountability in the Balkans2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

European Commission attempting to block citizens’ requests via AsktheEU.org

2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Madrid, 2 June 2014 – The European Commission is impeding the public's right to submit access to documents requests via the AsktheEU.org web portal by refusing to register requests which are not accompanied by a postal address. AsktheEU.org, which is run by Access Info Europe, was launched in September 2011 with the aim of making the requesting process more transparent. It is set up to work via email, with requests and responses published online in real time. Hence it does not currently have the capacity to deliver postal addresses without making them public. The Commission in early May started to

European Commission attempting to block citizens’ requests via AsktheEU.org2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Politics for People Campaign: Now is time for new MEPs to tackle Corporate Lobbying

2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Brussels, Madrid, Cologne, 30 May 2014 – Civil society groups from across Europe this week called on newly elected Members of the European Parliament to make an urgent priority of tackling the problem of corporate lobbying in the next parliamentary term. The call by members of the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER_EU), of which Access Info Europe is a Steering Committee member, went out to all 751 new MEPs and in particular to the 174 who signed a pre-election pledge under the Politics for People campaign to ‘’stand-up for citizens and democracy against the excessive lobbying influence

Politics for People Campaign: Now is time for new MEPs to tackle Corporate Lobbying2018-11-13T10:11:49+01:00

Un tercio de los recién electos eurodiputados, comprometidos con la transparencia y con una mayor regulación del lobby

2018-11-13T10:07:26+01:00

Madrid, lunes 26 de mayo de 2014 – Un tercio (31%) de los recién electos eurodiputados españoles ya se ha comprometido a promover la transparencia y a regular el lobby en Bruselas; este es el resultado de la campaña pre-electoral 'Politics for People', coordinada en España por Access Info Europe. Antes de las elecciones, 130 de los candidatos a eurodiputados firmaron un compromiso para “defender a los ciudadanos y a la democracia contra la excesiva influencia del lobby de los bancos y las grandes empresas”. 13 de esos 130 fueron elegidos en las urnas el pasado domingo, junto con otros

Un tercio de los recién electos eurodiputados, comprometidos con la transparencia y con una mayor regulación del lobby2018-11-13T10:07:26+01:00

Civil society calls for full transparency about EU-US trade negotiations

2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

Madrid, 26 May 2014 – More than 250 civil society organisations worldwide, including Access Info Europe, today called on the European Commission to make the negotiations on the future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) open and transparent. The TTIP is the biggest bilateral trade agreement ever negotiated and it will have significant effects on the economy, the environment and the future of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. There is a clear public interest in being able to follow these negotiations, and yet, since they started, they have taken place behind a veil of secrecy, with

Civil society calls for full transparency about EU-US trade negotiations2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office cancels court hearing and promises complete information on EU transparency negotiations

2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

Madrid, 22 May 2014 – The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has pulled out of a case before the UK’s Information Tribunal resulting in cancellation of a court hearing due this week (20-21 May) and has agreed to provide Access Info Europe with full information on negotiations in Brussels to revise the European Union’s transparency rules. The specialised Information Tribunal issued a formal decision on 21 May 2014 closing a four-year legal process arising from an information request first made on 15 June 2010 by Access Info Europe Campaigner Pam Bartlett Quintanilla. Just three weeks before the court hearing

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office cancels court hearing and promises complete information on EU transparency negotiations2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

Más de 110 candidatos españoles a las elecciones europeas han firmado el compromiso por una mejor regulación de los lobbies en la UE

2018-11-13T10:07:26+01:00

Madrid, miércoles 21 de mayo 2014 – La campaña ‘Politics for People’, que busca el compromiso de los futuros miembros del Parlamento Europeo para apoyar la regulación y la transparencia del lobby, ha resultado en un gran éxito en España, donde 116 candidatos han firmado para “defender a los ciudadanos y la democracia contra la influencia excesiva de los lobbies de los bancos y las grandes empresas”. España se posiciona así como el tercer país europeo con el mayor número de firmas, abarcando el 10% de un total de 1100 candidatos comprometidos. Alemania, con 250, y Austria, con 157, son

Más de 110 candidatos españoles a las elecciones europeas han firmado el compromiso por una mejor regulación de los lobbies en la UE2018-11-13T10:07:26+01:00

AsktheEU.org Report on Council of the European Union: Transparency problems exposed

2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

Madrid/Brussels, 19 May 2014 – The Council of the EU is failing to comply with EU transparency rules by not respecting time frames for responding, applying too many extensions to requests, and not informing all requesters of their right to appeal when information is denied, according to a report published today by Access Info Europe. Analysis of 50 access to documents requests submitted to the Council between 2011 and 2013 via the AsktheEU.org platform, found that the average time for answering was 20 working days, significantly over the maximum 15 working days permitted by EU law. Requests which resulted in

AsktheEU.org Report on Council of the European Union: Transparency problems exposed2018-11-13T10:11:50+01:00

El Gobierno presenta su II Plan de Acción para el OGP, abierto a «consulta pública»*

2020-02-14T16:19:01+01:00

Madrid, 14 de mayo de 2014 – El pasado mes de abril, el Gobierno publicó el II Plan de Acción de Gobierno Abierto en el marco del Open Government Partnership, una alianza nacida en 2011 y formada por 64 países - entre ellos, España – que tienen como misión elaborar compromisos para lograr mejoras en los tres aspectos esenciales del gobierno abierto: la rendición de cuentas, la participación, y la transparencia. El plan de acción presentado el mes pasado constituye un borrador inicial, abierto a consulta pública, tal y como obliga el Open Government Partnership, pese a que esta regla

El Gobierno presenta su II Plan de Acción para el OGP, abierto a «consulta pública»*2020-02-14T16:19:01+01:00
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