During the coming months, several presentations and/or discussions on transparency of the European Union are planned in which members of the Open Government project or affiliated researchers take part.
The concept of the ‘space to think’ has since long offered an argument to EU decision makers to limit the transparency of decision-making processes. In a new article entitled “‘Integration without transparency’? Reliance on the space to think in the European Council and Council” published in the Journal of European Integration, Maarten Hillebrandt (Bielefeld University) and Stéphanie Novak (UC Lille) explore a tacit but common assumption underlying the EU’s reliance on the ‘space to think’: that it is caused and amplified by the dominance of executive actors.
The fifth Global Conference on Transparency Research has been announced.
It is due to take place at the University of Limerick, Ireland, from 19-21 June 2017. The organisation this time is in the hands of an tricontinental team of researchers from the Universities of Limerick, Baltimore (USA), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Makerere (Kampala, Uganda).
Since September 2014, the Open Government in the EU blog scans English-language online news outlets for news on EU transparency. Please find below the news digest of the second half of 2015. See also the news report digests for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 (first quarter and second quarter), and 2014 (last quarter).
07/07/15// BBC: TTIP talks: Transparency call for EU-US trade disputes
07/09/15// EurActiv: EU needs compulsory transparency register to rein in Big Pharma lobbying
10/09/15// Politico: Transparency: Now you see it…
15/09/15// Euractiv: Trialogues: What goes on behind closed doors?