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Tag: 2015

Successful Fourth Global Conference on Transparency Research held in Lugano

Post author By Editor
Post date June 10, 2015

From 4-6 June, the Fourth Global Conference on Transparency Research was held at the Università dela Svizzera italiana in Lugano.

Tags 2015, conference, GCTR, panel, usi

Implementation Legal reform

Inch by inch, the Council crawls towards greater transparency

Post author By Editor
Post date June 1, 2015

A new internal note reveals renewed efforts by a small group of member states to take Council transparency forward, Maarten Hillebrandt reports.

Non paper April 2015 — A fragment from the recent non paper concerning Council transparency reform.

Tags 2015, access to documents, council, denmark, estonia, maarten hillebrandt, member states, Netherlands, revision, slovenia, sweden

Jurisprudence Research

New publication: recent case law impacts on the Council’s ability to negotiate in secrecy

Post author By Editor
Post date May 25, 2015

Recent cases at the Court of Justice on Regulation 1049/01 on public access to Parliament, Council and Commission documents set new limits to confidentiality in the Council’s legislative and international negotiations, as Vigjilenca Abazi and Maarten Hillebrandt argue in a recent case note.