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Transparency and access-to-documents cases across the EU and its member states.
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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…
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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…