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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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21 July 2012Sweden and Finland Warn Danish Presidency in Open Letter
Finland and Sweden increased the pressure on the Danish EU presidency. In an open letter, two ministers of justice urged the presidency…
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30 June 2012EU Access-Rules Reform Fails but the Lisbon Question Remains
The attempt to recast the European Union's existing access-to-documents rules had failed, but the issue remained on the agenda. An adjustment to…
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21 May 2012Freedom-of-Information Request Websites Across Europe
Websites that transmit requests to official authorities and publish the information received multiplied across Europe in the early 2010s. Their results ranged…
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13 May 2012Danish Presidency Criticised Over EU Access-Rules Mandate
The Danish EU presidency failed to unite member states behind new access rules for the EU institutions. Sweden, Finland and possibly others…
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10 May 2012Cross-Border FOI Requests Win Danish Cavling Prize
A request for access to documents in a neighbouring country helped award-winning Danish journalists contribute to the downfall of a government minister.…
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10 May 2012USA More Open on CIA Rendition Flights Than Its European Allies
US authorities proved considerably more open about the controversial rendition flights run by the CIA than their European counterparts, according to a…
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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…