The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of about 200 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.

4 ALTER-EU groups send letter to European Parliament President Martin Schulz about MEP Jean-Luc Dehaene's undeclared stock options

Publication date: 
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Author: 
Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory, LobbyControl, SpinWatch

Several Belgian media reported that MEP Dehaene is allowed to exert stock options granted by AB InBev, potentially amounting to around 3 million Euro. We are surprised to notice that those stock options are nowhere reported in Mr Dehaene’s current declaration of interest, despite the very clear obligations regarding declaration of outside interests.

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4 ALTER-EU steering committee members letter potential conflict of interest MEP Jean Luc Dehaene.pdf
Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP

Letter to European Parliament's Budget Committee: MEPs should reject lifting reserve on expert groups budget (English and French version attached)

Publication date: 
Monday, May 7, 2012
Author: 
Yiorgos Vassalos

On 8 May, the Budget Committee will vote on the European Commission's request to lift the reserve of two million Euros for meetings for expert groups. (Transfer of Appropriations No DEC 05/2012) The European Commission is requesting that this reserve is lifted without any of the conditions set by the European Parliament being fulfilled [...].

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ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee, 8 May vote.pdf
ALTER-EU Letter to Budget Committee 8 May FR.pdf
Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

Firm action to regulate ‘revolving door’ between European institutions and lobby industry needed

Publication date: 
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU, EuroCoop, Transparency International Brussels office, Solidar, EURODAD, EPSU

When EU institution staff members leave public service and become lobbyists, conflicts of interest may arise that can damage the integrity of the public policy-making process and the reputation of the European institutions.

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Revolving doors civil society letter_final.pdf
Document types: 
open letters
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door
 

Clean up Brussels' Lobby Scene with ALTER-EU

Publication date: 
Friday, January 13, 2012

Short video clip explaining ways in which the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) wants to clean up Brussels' lobby scene.

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Ex-head of Europe’s drug regulator set up consultancy while still in office

Publication date: 
Friday, January 27, 2012
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

Following correspondence with Dr Lönngren, our press statement of 19 December 2011 has now been amended and the revised statement is available here.

Campaign: 
Block the revolving door
 

Shedding light on expert groups

Publication date: 
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Author: 
Yiorgos Vassalos and Fabian Spoerer

ALTER-EU took part in a ground-breaking hearing in the European Parliament - initiated by Dennis de Jong MEP (GUE/NGL), co-organised by the EPP, S&D, ALDE and Greens - looking at problems with the European Commission's expert groups. 

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egsephearing.pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

ALTER-EU: 6 years of campaigning for lobbying transparency

Publication date: 
Friday, December 2, 2011

ALTER-EU, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation, held its annual assembly on 13-14 October in Brussels to discuss about how to take the campaign for lobbying transparency forward.

Video: 
 

Bursting the Brussels Bubble

Bursting the Brussels Bubble

One year on from MEP scandal: Parliament must be strict on implementation of ethics code to avoid new scandals

Publication date: 
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

One year after the ‘cash-for-amendments’ scandal, ALTER-EU warns that the new ethical code introduced does not include all the safeguards necessary to prevent another ‘lobbygate’.

Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP
 
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