ALTER-EU press releases

ALTER-EU: Task force must ban MEPs from taking industry jobs on the side

Publication date: 
lundi, April 11, 2011
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) has today written to the ten members of the European Parliament's new working group on ethics and transparency reforms following the ‘cash-for-influence’ scandal.

 

Another MEP exposed in 'cash for laws'-scandal; ALTER-EU urges strict new rules

Publication date: 
dimanche, March 27, 2011
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

ALTER-EU has repeated calls for strict new rules and greater transparency following further revelations in a UK newspaper today (27 March) that Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba Bidegain tabled an amendment in the European Parliament in return for promised payments from undercover journalists posing as lobbyists.

 

'Cash for laws'-scandal: ALTER-EU calls for stricter ethics rules for MEPs and a mandatory lobby register (EN/FR)

Publication date: 
lundi, March 21, 2011
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

An alliance of transparency campaigners today urged a root and branch overhaul of ethics rules for MEPs, following the revelations published in UK newspaper, the Sunday Times (20 March) exposing how three MEPs were prepared to accept payments in return for tabling amendments in the European Parliament.

 

European drug regulator challenged over revolving door case involving former Director

Publication date: 
vendredi, February 25, 2011
Press release issued by: 
ALTER-EU, HAI, ISDB

Public health and transparency campaigners have sent a joint letter to the European Commission challenging the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) decision to allow its former Executive Director, Thomas Lönngren, to take up an advisory role within the private pharmaceutical sector just weeks after leaving his position with the regulatory agency.

 

50,000 demand tougher code of conduct for Ex-Commissioners going through the revolving door

Publication date: 
mardi, November 9, 2010
Press release issued by: 
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)

More than 50,000 people signed an online Avaaz petition urging the EU Commission to close the revolving doors for ex-Commissioners who move on to lucrative private sector lobby jobs after they step down.

Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EC
 

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