LEGAL OPINION BY PROF. DR. LUDWIG KRAMER Article 11 TEU provides that one million citizens, coming from a significant number of EU Member States, may in a petition ask the EU institutions to elaborate a legislation on a specific subject. The...
Commission Communication on European Transparency Initiative (ETI):just window dressing, or a real step forward for transparency in the EU?
The EU Civil Society Contact Group (CSCG) brings together eight large NGO sectors - culture, environment, education, development, human rights, public health, social and women. The members of these sectoral platforms are European NGO networks.
This report is part of our ongoing research into the European Commission lobby register. It builds on ALTER EU's preliminary analysis of the European Commission lobbyists register, which we published in January 2009. We concluded our research...
"How to make a transparent registration in the European Commission Register for Interest Representatives" - guidelines developed by the EU Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU.
Bruxelles, Belgium — Avant que la Commission européenne ne délivre sa propre évaluation, les organisations environnementales émettent un verdict critique, notamment en matière de protection et d’amélioration de l’environnement en Europe. Elles...
Brussels, Belgium — Following an EU press briefing earlier today marking the first anniversary of the launch of European Commission lobby register, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) has published updated...
Brussels, Belgium — As the European Commission prepares to review its voluntary lobby register one year after its official launch in 2008, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) has published a detailed report...
Brussels, Belgium — European civil society, transparency and consumer groups have today raised the bar for EU transparency rules by presenting a new set of guidelines that goes well beyond the weak and unclear requirements of the European...
The voluntary EU lobby register launched today by the Commission is weak and unbalanced, said the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency (ALTER-EU).
The Irish government has released the detailed programme at the start of its six-month presidency of the European Union.
This weekend I joined a unique European protest, not the usual gathering in front of Commission buildings in Brussels. Almost 8,000 people from all over Europe gathered at the Polish-German border to form an eight-kilometre long human...
It's a crisis that can be told in numbers: around 890,000 refugees and migrants arrived to Europe by sea this year, while more than 3,500 have died and it's not over yet. Fleeing war, human rights abuses and persecution,...
Brussels – Halfway through its term in office, the European Commission is falling behind in the race to create sustainable long-term prosperity in Europe, warn Europe’s leading green groups in a critical assessment of the Commission’s...
This report is a mid-term assessment of the environmental performance of the Barroso II European Commission, covering the period from early 2010 to mid-2012. It is issued by the Green10, a platform of environmental organisations active at EU...
The European Convention: Green 8 summary briefing.
Evaluation by the “Green Nine” of the content of the EU Constitution as compared with the ambitions these organisations had formulated at the start of the work of the European Convention.
The eight largest European environmental organisations, the Green 8, have been working together to advise the Convention on issues relevant to environment, sustainable development and participatory democracy.
Brussels, Belgium — The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) welcomes the European Commission’s second Communication on the European Transparency Initiative as an important step in the right direction. But...
A concise two page briefing on the European Citizens' Initiative.
It is almost two months to the day since Europe’s highest court banned the commercial patenting of stem cells involving the destruction of embryos. The original case was brought by Greenpeace in Germany, with the backing of a...
Today I watched, along with millions of others across the globe, the Noble Peace Prize being awarded to the European Union for its contribution to the "advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe." ...
Thirty years ago, groups of individuals in New Zealand were preparing to leave their families, their jobs and their homes to set off in small boats across the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear weapons testing zone. They hoped that their...
Brussels – Today the Irish government laid out plans for its presidency of the Council of the European Union, which is due to begin on 1 January 2013. Statements today by Irish Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and foreign minister Eamon Gilmore...
Letter on behalf of the Green 10.
Denmark will take the helm of the Council of the European Union from January 2012 at a crucial time for the future of Europe and its citizens. As government cuts start to bite and the debt and Euro-zone crises unfold, Europeans continue to be...
Industrial pollution is a severe threat to water resources around the world, particularly in the Global South where the view prevails that pollution is the price to pay for progress. The only way to address these hidden dangers in our water is...
Parliaments in democracies the world over are places of vigorous discussion and sometimes fierce debate. Views on either side of the political spectrum are often radically divergent. With members from political parties in all of the...
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European and American trade negotiators have a tough week ahead of them. They are meeting behind closed doors to negotiate a new Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) We want to put an end to these negotiations...
Are Europe’s polluters demanding more scrutiny of their operations? Well, unsurprisingly, no, but industry lobbyists putting pressure on the European Commission to increase the power of its chief scientific adviser does sound...
What happened to the 80 commitments?
Proposals from Environmental Organisations for a realistic and ambitious Sustainable Development Strategy – to be adopted by the June 2006 European Summit.
I was 22 years old when I had to leave my homeland, South Africa. I had no choice. I was living underground for a year by then, to avoid being arrested. This was 1987, in the midst of one of the most bloody and violent periods in the...
ACEI letter
letter from Energy Intensive Industries
EUROPEAN BUSINESS RECOMMENDATIONS ON EU POLICIES FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY
BE Letter to President Schauvliege
BP position letter
Que leur reproche-t-on? Avoir participé en décembre 2009 à une action en faveur du climat. Résultat des courses? Le Procureur du Roi a requis une peine d'un mois de prison et 1100 euros d'amende par prévenu. Le verdict est attendu le 17 mars 2011.
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