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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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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,…
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20 January 2012EU Governments Fight to Keep Their Positions from Citizens
Several EU member states asked the Court in Luxembourg to help them keep their negotiating positions hidden from citizens, even after those…
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20 January 2012New Victory for the Ombudsman and for Reporters on Medicine Transparency
Reports of possible lethal side effects of a medicine for bacterial infections were released by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). It marked…
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20 January 2012EU Binds Member States to New Security Rules as Parliament Adopts the Same Restrictions
The 27 EU ambassadors in Brussels agreed to make internal security rules for information binding law in the member countries, and the…
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20 January 2012EU: Sharpened Conflicts on New Access Rules
The European Parliament sharpened its resistance to new access rules proposed by the Commission for the EU. At the same time the…