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.
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.
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