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

Publication date: 
Sunday, 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.

 

ALTER-EU letter to chairman of European Parliament: European Parliament’s reaction to ‘cash-for-laws’ scandal; proposals for better ethics regulation and lobby transparency.

Publication date: 
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the European Union (ALTER-EU) is deeply concerned about the revelations published in the Sunday Times (20 March), exposing how three MEPs were prepared to accept payments in return for tabling amendments.

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Document types: 
correspondence
Campaign: 
Code of Conduct EP
 

Report on Goldman Sachs released: 'Doing God's Work'

Publication date: 
Monday, March 21, 2011
Author: 
SpinWatch

SpinWatch' research show just how pervasive the presence of Goldman Sachs is in Brussels, although on the surface it is nowhere. But scratch that surface and it is everywhere. It can operate through a dozen or so highly active lobbying groups, it sits on the Commission’s expert groups which have a direct influence on policy

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Document types: 
reports & studies
 

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

Publication date: 
Monday, 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: 
Friday, 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.

 

ALTER-EU assessment of European Parliament – Commission agreement on a common “Transparency Register”

Publication date: 
Friday, February 11, 2011

Six years after the launch of the European Transparency Initiative, there’s still a long way to go to reach the goal of transparency around the role of lobbying in EU decision-making.

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Document types: 
position papers
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

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