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Support for report calling for the widening of public access to EU documents. MEPs today backed an overhaul of EU transparency rules and the widening of public access...

MEPs split over making data public ahead of next week's plenary session. MEPs are expected to back a call to overhaul EU transparency rules and widen public access to EU...

MEP calls for overhaul of transparency rules, while Commission is accused of limiting access. A bruising four-year battle over public access to EU documents moves into a new...

Commission should ensure that Czech asylum procedures comply with human-rights standards. We wholeheartedly welcome the statement by Milena Vicenová, the Czech...

Concerns over delays in modernising freedom of information rights. Advocates of a more open EU are concerned not only over the role of lobbyists, but also over delays in...

MEPs love the attention from US during data-sharing discussions. MEPs have been basking in the warm glow of global political attention over the EU-US arrangements on sharing...

Bulgaria's commissioner-designate does much better than her predecessor. There was a palpable sense of relief among MEPs when Kristalina Georgieva turned out to be very...

Upset for Nigel Farage as UKIP MEP leaves the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the Parliament. Uncomfortable moments for Nigel Farage (pictured), the leader of the...

Just the man to be the European Council's president. Tony Blair as the first full-time president of the European Council (“Opposition mounts against Blair for Council...

The Parliament's civil liberties committee supports proposal to give the public better access to EU documents. MEPs on the European Parliament's civil liberties committee...

Parliamentary committee likely to endorse call for ‘user-friendly' rules on access to official documents. MEPs in the civil liberties committee will vote today to update...

The transparency challenge finds two Don Quixotes? Michael Cashman, a UK Socialist MEP, and Marco Cappato, an Italian Liberal MEP, do not have much in common, but both bear...

The Parliament's Socialist group is trying to show the more human side of some of its MEPs by putting up on its website short video interviews. But the standard profile...

‘SWIFT transfer was “illegal” says data watchdog', (16-22 November) omits a key point: namely that SWIFT was legally bound under US law to transfer this data to the US...

Your article ‘ECB had ‘moral responsibility' to tell about US data transfers' (5-11 October) does not portray a balanced account of the range of opinion expressed by MEPs...

Members of the European Parliament have reacted angrily to the Commission's claim that it will not alter the content of the airline passenger-data agreement with the US. Some...

I agree with the importance of the Council meeting in public when acting in a legislative capacity ('UK presidency wants to open legislative meetings to public', 13-19...

Michael Cashman leaves out a basic fundamental in his letter 'Lloyd's is local matter' (European Voice, 7-13 July) that is material to events surrounding this saga. The...

The article 'Deputies vote for Lloyd's court battle' (European Voice, 30 June-6 July) omitted to touch on the most important element of this debate: under the current treaty,...

THE controversy sparked by Italian commissioner-designate Rocco Buttiglione's comments has revived the debate on homosexuality in Europe. Some gay and lesbian associations...