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The Travel Expenses Campaign: How We Did It
In January 2016, Access Info Europe launched a campaign inviting members of the public to request the travel expenses of EU Commissioners. After all, it seems entirely reasonable to us that citizens be...
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Friday 25 October 2019 – Open Knowledge France, the local group of the Cambridge-based NGO Open Knowledge Foundation, with the support of Access Info Europe, launches madada.fr, an online service...
View ArticleAsktheEU.org User Survey: Concern about Poor Quality Responses to Requests
A survey of 95 users of the request platform AsktheEU.org, carried out by the Access Info team in February 2020, has found that three quarters (75%) report being increasingly disappointed with EU...
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“Sometimes I get the feeling that they put all of these barriers so that you...
Nikolaj Nielsen is a Danish-born journalist who has been working at the EUobserver since 2012. Alejandra: Thanks for taking the time in talking to us, Nikolaj! We first wanted to ask you about the most...
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AsktheEU Pro, the all-in-one FOI toolkit for professional journalists and...
Madrid, 1 June 2020 – Pro-transparency human rights organisation Access Info Europe is glad to launch AsktheEU Pro, an improved version of the AsktheEU.org account designed to upgrade journalists and...
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“AsktheEU.org helps keep the EU democratic and transparent – and is so easy...
Hans Wetzels (1982) is a freelance investigative journalist from the Netherlands. He currently lives in Berlin and Landgraaf, and has experience working in and from countries like Kenya, Nepal, Angola...
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“My requests have helped me obtain documents about the militarisation and...
Mark is a researcher at Stop Wapenhandel (Dutch campaign against arms trade), who has in recent years focused, in cooperation with the Transnational Institute (TNI) on the militarisation and...
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“The most interesting requests I’ve done were those focused on how the EU was...
Adrián Blanco Ramos is a graphics reporter at The Washington Post. He previously worked as a data journalist at El Confidencial, focusing on data visualization, data analysis and investigative...
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“Freedom of information is absolutely fundamental to our democratic rights,...
Vicky is a campaigner for Corporate Europe Observatory, a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and lobby groups in EU...
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“AsktheEU.org allowed us to obtain documents showing the extent to which the...
Bram Vranken is a researcher and campaigner with the Belgian peace organisation Vredesactie. He works on topics related to arms lobbying in the European Union and the international arms trade....
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