Tag Archives: transparency

What is the EU planning to do?

This is really useful – and an important step towards more transparency. The European Commission just launched a directory for legislative proposals as part of the Eur-Lex service (hat tip: Grahlaw)  You can browse through 20 policy areas and discover what kind of EU legislation is in the pipeline! What exactly is included? ‘Preparatory documents’ [...]
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VoteWatch.eu – worth waiting for

A couple of months ago we all complained that there is no tool for tracking MEP votes in the European Parliament. The times have changed and we now have literally a multitude of different websites that deal with the issue. VoteWatch.eu, announced already a while ago, was finally launched today. It is quite a complex [...]
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The EU Calendar and the EU’s 5 golden rules to hide useful information

Anyone interested in European affairs would find it very useful. That is, if they can find it. It is the EU Calendar, a tool that existed for quite a while (without anyone knowing of its existence, thus making it utterly irrelevant) and it was officially presented last Friday, January 30- a piece of information restricted [...]
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