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Implementation Legal reform

Public Consultation on New Dutch FOI Law

The European Public Sector Information Platform reports the public consultation round that has opened for the Dutch FOI law.

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Research

Erna Scholtes defends PhD thesis on Dutch political understanding of transparency

Last Monday, Erna Scholtes defended a thesis on the emerging understanding of the idea of transparency over the past decades.

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Oversight

Dutch General Accounting Office: More Openness about EU’s Expenditures

The ongoing financial crisis in the Eurozone may not only have the effect of furthering integration, embodied in a Commissioner for national budgets. 

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Implementation Legal reform News reports

Dutch Access to Documents (WOB) Controversy

Not only in the EU is a debate (or should we say, battle) still ongoing over the meaning and usefulness of transparency. Also in the Netherlands has a member of government sought to reopen a fundamental discussion on the current WOB-regime.