{"id":15375,"date":"2015-03-31T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/?p=15375"},"modified":"2020-02-14T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:06:29","slug":"how-to-stop-the-next-lobby-scandal-before-it-happens-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2015-03-31\/how-to-stop-the-next-lobby-scandal-before-it-happens-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop the next lobby scandal before it happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/mep-event.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mep-event-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"mep event\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/mep-event-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/mep-event.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>31 March 2015, 6-8pm, Room ASP 3H-1, European Parliament, Brussels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ALTER-EU organised a conference to present \u201cNavigating the lobby labyrinth: A guide to transparency and ethics for MEPs\u201d and\u00a0to debate and launch policy recommendations for a strengthened MEP Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The recent \u2018cash for access\u2019 scandal in the UK has highlighted the need for improvements to ethics rules for elected representatives to restore public confidence in parliamentary democracy. Four years after the 2011 \u2018cash for amendments\u2019 scandal in the European Parliament, and three years after the adoption of the Code of Conduct for MEPs, it is time for a review of the rules for MEPs to ensure that conflicts of interest and undue influence are avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers: Nessa Childers MEP, Jerzy Buzek MEP (tbc), Richard Corbett MEP, Sven Giegold MEP, Paul de Clerck (ALTER-EU), Nina Katzemich (ALTER EU), Nikolaj Nielsen (EUobserver).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 March 2015, 6-8pm, Room ASP 3H-1, European Parliament, Brussels ALTER-EU organised a conference to present \u201cNavigating the lobby labyrinth: A guide to transparency and ethics for MEPs\u201d and\u00a0to debate and launch policy recommendations for a strengthened MEP Code of Conduct. The recent \u2018cash for access\u2019 scandal in the UK has highlighted the need for improvements to ethics rules for elected representatives to restore public confidence in parliamentary democracy. Four years after the 2011 \u2018cash for amendments\u2019 scandal in the European Parliament, and three years after the adoption of the Code of Conduct for MEPs, it is time for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30768,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15375\/revisions\/30768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}