Southeast Europe regional OGP Meeting
Helen Darbishire2020-01-29T10:48:03+01:00Date: 23-24/05/2017 Place: Sarajevo
Meeting with the European Green Group
Helen Darbishire2020-01-29T10:48:11+01:00Date: 12/05/2017 Place: European Parliament, Brussels.
Meeting with the Transparency Unit of the European Parliament
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:42:03+01:00Date: 12/05/2017 Place: European Parliament, Brussels.
Meeting with Judith Sargentini MEP
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:42:04+01:00Date: 11/05/2017 Place: Brussels
Meeting with Heidi Hautela MEP
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:42:04+01:00Date: 10/05/2017 Place: Brussels
Workshop on Lobby Transparency
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:42:53+01:00Date: 10/05/2017 Place: European Parliament, Brussels.
EU Urged to Adopt Comprehensive Transparency Agenda
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00Madrid/Brussels, 9 May 2017 – On Europe Day, Access Info is calling on the European Union to commit to and implement essential transparency and open government reforms to reverse the growing sense among European citizens that they are distanced from Brussels and that decisions are taken behind closed doors with little or no accountability. Access Info’s mapping, carried out with our partners, reveals that it is not possible for citizens to get information on decisions such as that to drop EU anti-corruption reports or who really negotiated the controversial EU-Turkey deal. Other transparency blackspots relate to areas of public interest,
Court Victory: Spanish Government must be open about Open Government Partnership activities!
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00Madrid, 4 May 2017 – In an important victory for advancing government transparency in Spain, the Madrid High Court has ruled that the Spanish Government should provide Access Info Europe with a series of documents related to its participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In a particularly interesting decision in Spain’s still young and evolving jurisprudence on the right of access to information – the Transparency Law came into force in December 2014 – the Court found that for civil society to participate in decision making on open government policies, having full access to relevant information is essential. “We
Necesitamos una Ley de transparencia fuerte
Helen Darbishire2018-11-13T09:42:53+01:00Eldiario.es | 24/04/2017 Spanish - La sociedad civil, trabajando mano a mano con periodistas, ha logrado arrojar luz sobre cómo nuestros representantes toman las decisiones públicas que afectan a los derechos de las personas, quién interviene en las mismas y cómo se gastan nuestro dinero. Read more...