{"id":27431,"date":"2017-01-26T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T08:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/?p=27431"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:03:43","slug":"request-campaign-launched-for-access-to-eu-commissioners-travel-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.access-info.org\/es\/2017-01-26\/request-campaign-launched-for-access-to-eu-commissioners-travel-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Request campaign launched for access to EU Commissioners’ travel expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madrid, 26 January 2017<\/em> – Access Info Europe today launched a public campaign<\/a> to crowd source access to EU documents requests to obtain full information on the spending by EU Commissioners on travel costs.<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/span>CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMPAIGN!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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The campaign follows the discovery from a request by Access Info team member Alba Guti\u00e9rrez that Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker spent \u20ac63,126 on an air taxi to Turkey for the G20 summit.<\/p>\n

At same time, the Commission\u2019s contracts with private air companies that provide such services was denied to another Access Info campaigner, Andreas Pavlou.<\/p>\n

After a two-year battle, Access Info has established that the European Commission will provide information on Commissioner\u2019s travel expenses for two month periods.<\/p>\n

To complete all the requests for all 28 Commissioners for 2016, Access Info is calling on the public to help submit the total of 168 requests.<\/p>\n

Anyone can participate by going to the campaign website<\/a> and sending a request. All requests and responses will be made public on the request platform AsktheEU.org, run by Access Info and mySociety.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this campaign, we are mobilising members of the public to help break the secrecy about how European citizens\u2019 taxes are being used on official travel<\/em>,\u201d said Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info, explaining that her first requests for this information were rejected on the rather remarkable grounds of protecting the privacy of the Commissioners.<\/p>\n

After submitting legal appeals and new requests, Access Info won access to a handful of documents about the travel expenses of five Commissioners, these are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is shocking that this information is not already available and that Access Info has had to fight during the last couple of years to get just a small part of it<\/em>,\u201d Darbishire added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now calling on the public to help us file all the requests necessary to fill in the picture and possibly to uncover any other excessive costs such as that of Juncker\u2019s extravagant air taxi to Turkey<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, please contact:<\/h2>\n

Luisa Izuzquiza<\/strong>, Communications Officer | Access Info Europe
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\nAndreas Pavlou<\/strong>, Campaigner and Researcher | Access Info Europe<\/p>\n

Send an e-mail<\/a> or call +34\u202f913\u202f656\u202f558

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