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Transparency in the EU: citizens' right controlled by the elite

04 February 2016

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"Fifteen years with access rules and still no register over documents to look for. Not only citizens, also governments are kept in the dark by the Commission, a new study on EU transparency shows."

See the full text: Transparency in the EU: citizens' right controlled by the elite (journalismfund.eu, link)

And see: Transparency through tinted windows - On the conditional openness in the European Commission (pdf)

Also: Statewatch Observatory on Freedom of Information in the EU

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