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The data privacy lobby battle: what's at stake and what can be done?

Publication date: 
mercredi, May 15, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Big corporation are doing everything in their power to water down the EU's new regulation on data privacy as it threatens their commercial interests. On 19th June the European Parliament will decide how strong the regulation will be. Citizens will be key in pushing MEPs to vote in public interest.

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Briefing on the Code of Conduct for Lobbyists

Publication date: 
jeudi, April 18, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The Code of Conduct (CoC) for lobbyists, which registrants of the Joint Transparency Register (TR) sign up to, in its current form, is weak and vaguely worded. It also needs to be revised in light of the new CoC for MEPs, which was introduced on January 1st 2012 (the MEP CoC was introduced after the TR came into being (June 2011)). 

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We Need to Talk About Expert Groups...

Publication date: 
lundi, March 25, 2013
Author: 
Pascoe Sabido, ALTER-EU expert group campaigner

For the second time in two months, the meeting between MEPs and the European Commission to discuss how to tackle industry dominance within the Commission's 'expert groups' has been cancelled.

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The Brussels Business Online Game - Step inside the black box

Publication date: 
lundi, January 21, 2013
Author: 
Matthieu Lietaert, director of The Brussels Business

Speak louder than the lobbyists - The Brussels Business online game

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Help us getting our message across! Take part in Commission's consultation on the Transparency Register

Publication date: 
mardi, July 17, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Although the online questionnaire reads more like a user's satisfaction survey, than a consultation about the register's effectiveness in bringing transparency, there is one good opportunity to give feedback in this respect. Help ALTER-EU to get real transparency!

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