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11 Dec 2017

For the first time in Spanish democratic history minutes of Cabinet meetings public, thanks to an information request

2018-11-13T10:03:06+01:00

Madrid, 11 December 2017 - Access Info Europe has today published on its website the minutes of Spain’s weekly Cabinet meetings for the years 1996 to 2017, making them available to the public for the first time in Spanish democratic history. The minutes, which contain the decisions reached in each weekly meeting, were obtained using information requests by Access Info as part of collaborative research with journalist Jesús Escudero, and have been published to mark the third anniversary of the entry into force of Spain’s Transparency Law on 10 December 2014. “This is a huge step forward for Spanish democracy,”

For the first time in Spanish democratic history minutes of Cabinet meetings public, thanks to an information request2018-11-13T10:03:06+01:00
4 Apr 2017

How two Spanish journalists got major scoops from just one information request!

2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00

Madrid/Perugia, 4 April 2017 - In March leading Spanish newspapers El País and El Confidencial published exclusive stories revealing never-before-seen information that exposed remarkable micro-management by the Spanish Cabinet (“Consejo de Ministros”) of decisions such as overspending on public procurement contracts and the granting or revocation of nationality. These stories – including a full page in the weekend edition of El País as well as a series of stories in the digital El Confidencial – were made possible thanks to a single access to information request by Alba Gutierrez of Access Info Europe. By exploiting a loophole in the Spanish

How two Spanish journalists got major scoops from just one information request!2018-11-13T10:03:20+01:00
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