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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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11 February 2013Danish "Yes-Minister" Law Would Keep Political Papers Secret
Danish parliamentarians prepared to adopt a new access law that would keep politically sensitive documents secret by definition. Critics called the "Yes-Minister-law"…
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29 January 2013New EU Data Rules Would Collide With Fundamental Rights
Suggested new EU rules for data protection might not only affect blogs, Facebook updates and tweets. Authorities would also have to redact…
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22 January 2013The Battle over the EU's Access-to-Documents Rules
The negotiations over new EU rules on citizens' access to documents pitted governments with different administrative traditions against one another, overlaid with…
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12 November 2012EU Data Protection Proposal Could Outlaw Millions of Websites
Under a proposed EU regulation, private individuals, authorities, companies and organisations would not be allowed to mention another person's health, ethnic origin,…
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11 September 2012Negotiations Open on an "Unacceptable" Access-Rules Proposal
A leading member of the European Parliament called the Danish outline on new transparency rules unacceptable, but signalled a readiness to look…
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11 September 2012EU Access-to-Documents Reform Stalls Under the Danish Presidency
A rejected proposal Negotiations to update the European Union's rules on public access to documents looked likely to end with no substantive…
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9 September 2012The Untold Yugoslavian Arms-Trade Scandal — Updated Documents
Slovenian journalists Matej Šurc and Blaž Zgaga documented the illegal arms trade that ran through Slovenia in the early 1990s in the…
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7 September 2012
Danish EU Presidency Drops Recast of Document Access Rules
In the first half of 2012, the Danish presidency of the Council of the European Union abandoned an attempt to overhaul the…
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5 September 2012Transparency Rules Widen to State-Owned Companies in Berlin
Companies owned by the state for 50 per cent or more fell under the same transparency regulations as public bodies, according to…
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19 August 2012Opinion: Time for the Parliament to Act on Transparency
In a column, the Finnish liberal MEP Anneli Jäätteenmäki argued that, with the Danish presidency lacking political will and the Commission unwilling…