Transparency & Corruption, Training/life-long learning
Date
Jun. 25, 2012
Danish Presidency stops push for greater transparency as Commission and large Member States refuse access
The European Parliament favours greater access to information of the European institutions. This allows citizens to follow debates and discussions and prevents that policies are prepared and decided behind closed
Mar. 20, 2012
Civil society organisations ask Commission to address revolving doors
(19 March 2012) EPSU, Alter-EU and several other organisations have addressed European Commissioner Šefčovič responsible for EU civil service to take measures to prevent [revolving doors->art8162] through which high ranking
May. 02, 2011
Europe's public service union: Stop corruption and make lobby more transparent
(Press Communication, 2 May 2011) The European Union recently saw a string of scandals with European Parliamentarians who took money from journalists posing as corporate lobbyists to influence legislation and
Aug. 16, 2010
New Survey details influence of Big Pharma on patient and consumer organizations
(16 August 2010) An independent NGO Health Action International (HAI) Europe published research based on a survey on levels of financial disclosure and transparency among patient and consumer organisations at
Oct. 27, 2009
Update on Alter-EU coalition
(27 October 2009) EPSU signed the [founding statement of the ALTER-EU coalition in 2005-> http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/www.alter-eu.org/files/publications/Statement_English.pdf], together with over 160 other public interest groups, academics and trade unions from across Europe