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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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4 May 2012TuDerechoaSaber.es: Spain's New Portal for the Public
People in Spain became able to make and track requests for information from public bodies through a new web portal, TuDerechoaSaber.es ("Your…
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4 May 2012The Untold Yugoslavian Arms Trade Scandal
Journalists Matej Šurc and Blaž Zgaga investigated the illegal trade of arms in Slovenia during the early 1990s and chronicled their findings…
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3 May 2012World's Oldest Access Law Will Remain
Swedish parliamentarians unanimously agreed not to propose a recast of the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act, the first law in the…
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26 April 2012Data Harvest 2012: Data Journalism Conference in Brussels
The Data Harvest conference gathered journalists in Brussels from 6 to 8 May 2012 for freshly harvested Farmsubsidy.org data and for training…
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24 March 2012Use Google, the Commission Suggests as Access Debate Heats Up
The European Parliament pushed for access to member states' positions in EU documents, but faced an uphill battle. A representative for the…
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24 March 2012
Belgium: A Federal State With Four Language Areas
A federal state of communities and regions Belgium is a federal State, composed of districts and communities, and it contains four language…
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24 March 2012EU Recast: New Transparency Rules Spell Trouble
More than 200 civil-society organisations asked the European Parliament to reject a proposal for new rules on access to EU documents, arguing…
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24 March 2012
Belgium: The Real Price of Nuclear Power No Longer Secret
A freedom-of-information request on environmental information forced disclosure of part of the cost of nuclear-waste management in Belgium, after a case brought…
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20 January 2012EU Access Rules: More Transparency for Some, Less for Others
EU parliamentarians are asking for more transparency for themselves, but less so for ordinary citizens, adding complexity to an already complicated issue.…
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20 January 2012"Cannot Be Accepted": The Commission After the Transparency Vote
A clear, if not overwhelming, majority in the European Parliament voted against proposed weakenings of the EU's existing access-to-documents law. The Commission,…