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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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14 May 2014
Secrecy Rules Despite EU Court Transparency Judgement
European Union ministers postponed implementing a Court judgement on transparency and refused to disclose the alternatives that had been discussed behind closed…
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14 May 2014
Council of the EU Classifies Its Response to Transparency Ruling
The Council of the European Union classified its own reaction to a landmark transparency ruling by the EU's Court of Justice in…
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27 May 2013How the EU Data Rules Became a Copy-Paste War
Politicians tabled amendments drafted by industry as if they were their own suggestions, and defenders of new data rules used the same…
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3 May 2013What the European Central Bank Knew but Would Not Tell
The European Central Bank declined to disclose what it had known about Greece's mounting debts since 2001. As the Court of Justice…
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17 March 2013EU Court Keeps ECB Documents on Greece's Debt Secret
The ruling The public would not be allowed to know how Greece concealed its large debts, nor what the European Central Bank…
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17 March 2013
Bloomberg Challenges ECB Secrecy Over Greek Debt Files
Documents showing how Greece hid the size of its public debt for years — and the possible role of the European Central…
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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,…