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MEPs signed up to Politics for People pledge 2014

Publication date: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Over 1300 MEP candidates signed up to our Politics for People pledge, of which 180 were elected, making it one of the most successful 2014 election campaigns. Here is a full list of signatories listed by country, party and political group.

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PDF icon 180 MEPs signed up to Politics for People pledge 2014.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Politics for People 2014 EU election campaign
 

Review of revolving door rules in the Staff Regulations

Publication date: 
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The provisions on conflicts of interest, including from post-employment activities (Art. 11, 12 and 16) in the European Commission's Staff Regulations do not go far enough in preventing the risk of actual or apparent conflicts of interest that arise through the revolving door – when public officials leave office and go to work in private sector lobby jobs.

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PDF icon ALTER-EU_Revolving door rules in Staff Regulations.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Stronger ethics regulation
 

The data privacy lobby battle: what's at stake and what can be done?

Publication date: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

Big corporation are doing everything in their power to water down the EU's new regulation on data privacy as it threatens their commercial interests. On 19th June the European Parliament will decide how strong the regulation will be. Citizens will be key in pushing MEPs to vote in public interest.

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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

Briefing on the Code of Conduct for Lobbyists

Publication date: 
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Author: 
ALTER-EU

The Code of Conduct (CoC) for lobbyists, which registrants of the Joint Transparency Register (TR) sign up to, in its current form, is weak and vaguely worded. It also needs to be revised in light of the new CoC for MEPs, which was introduced on January 1st 2012 (the MEP CoC was introduced after the TR came into being (June 2011)). 

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PDF icon ALTER-EU_Briefing_Lobbyist-Code-of-Conduct _April2013.pdf
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briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Full lobby transparency now!
 

We Need to Talk About Expert Groups...

Publication date: 
Monday, March 25, 2013
Author: 
Pascoe Sabido, ALTER-EU expert group campaigner

For the second time in two months, the meeting between MEPs and the European Commission to discuss how to tackle industry dominance within the Commission's 'expert groups' has been cancelled.

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PDF icon ALTER-EU comment on Feb.pdf
PDF icon COMMISSION_STATE OF PLAY _ FEBRUARY 2013 _ FINAL.pdf
PDF icon EG State of Play_March_Revised (1).pdf
Document types: 
briefings & info sheets
Campaign: 
Balanced expert groups
 

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