Recent ALTER-EU publications and correspondence

ALTER-EU: 10 years of successful campaigning

Publication date:

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Since our creation in 2005, the Alliance for lobbying transparency and ethics regulation (ALTER-EU) has been at the forefront of campaigns to tackle excessive lobbying influence and conflicts of interest at the European level.

Document types:

briefings & info sheets

Campaign:

Full lobby transparency now!

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ALTER-EU complaints to the EU transparency register regarding misleading entries

Publication date:

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

ALTER-EU has submitted five complaints to the EU lobby register secretariat concerning the entries of organisations that we consider have under-reported their true lobby expenditure.

Download full document as pdf:

FINAL EUTR complaints 27.7.15.pdf

Initial holding reply from JTRS.pdf

2015-10-20 Closing letter to Alter-EU.pdf

Document types:

open letters

Campaign:

Full lobby transparency now!

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Proposals for next-step measures to improve the EU lobby transparency register

Publication date:

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

It is imperative that the European Commission, European Parliament, Council and member states implement urgent measures to boost lobby transparency.

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Fltn! proposals for measures to improve the EU lobby register.pdf

Document types:

briefings & info sheets

Campaign:

Full lobby transparency now!

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Who is meeting whom? The lobby meetings of the new European Commission

Publication date:

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Author:

Researched and written by Fabian Flues and Sarah Bouchra. Comments by Paul de Clerck and Olivier Hoedeman. Edited by Paul Hallows and John Hyland.

Six months after Juncker’s announcement that his new EU Commission would publish details of all high level meetings, ALTER-EU looks at the evidence to see who’s been meeting whom, and whether lobby meetings are still slipping under the transparency radar

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who is meeting whom_print.pdf

who is meeting whom_web.pdf

Document types:

briefings & info sheets

Campaign:

Full lobby transparency now!