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Member state offices in Brussels wide open to corporate lobbyists
Brussels/Madrid, 22 March 2016 – Corporate lobbyists enjoy widespread access to member state representations by exploiting loopholes in EU transparency rules according to the first ever study on lobbying activities at national government offices in Brussels.[1] The study, ‘National representations in Brussels: open for corporate lobbyists’ by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), reveals how these government
Civil society expose holes in EU lobby transparency rules
This post was originally published by ALTER-EU. Madrid/Brussels, 17 December 2015 - Research by ALTER-EU member groups Corporate Europe Observatory, Access Info Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe shows that well over 90 per cent of meetings between DG FISMA (the Commission's department for financial regulation) officials not covered by transparency rules and lobbyists are with the corporate sector.
Nace la coalición ‘¡Transparencia del Lobby Ya!’: por un lobby transparente, íntegro y participativo en España
Madrid, 28 de octubre de 2015 – Hoy, las organizaciones Access Info Europe, ACEM, CIECODE, Civio y QuéHacenLosDiputados se han unido para lanzar la coalición ‘¡Transparencia del Lobby Ya!’, una plataforma cuyo objetivo es reivindicar e impulsar la creación de un marco regulatorio para el lobby en España basado en la transparencia, la integridad y la participación. A día de
Lobbying Transparency via RTI Laws
This document sets out the classes of information that should be made available by public bodies in order to get a full picture of the influence of interest groups, particularly lobbyists, on governmental and legislative decision making. You can download the report in PDF and in Word . If you have any comments about the contents of this report, we
New lobby transparency civic-tech tools reveal corporate dominance of the Brussels bubble
Madrid, 25 June 2015 - The RTI community celebrated this week the launch of two groundbreaking online tools that enable citizens to monitor the interactions between high-level European Commission officials and lobbyists in the Brussels bubble: » LobbyFacts.eu, created by ALTER-EU's Corporate Europe's Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, and relaunched last week, is a site that delivers
Over 100 NGOs urge EU Commission to make the lobby register legally binding
Brussels, 11 May 2015 - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) [1] has urged European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans to take strong and urgent action to create a high-quality and legally-binding EU lobby transparency register in a letter sent to him today, signed by over one hundred non-governmental organisations and trade unions, and supported by the
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