We asked the candidates for the EU’s top job how they would fight the corporate capture of our democracy. How do they score?
In Brussels, the political heart of the European Union, extreme corporate influence often distorts the political process, either blocking progress where it is sorely needed or leading to policies t
Mandatory EU lobby transparency sunken by EU Institutions
ALTER-EU's reacts to the collapse of negotiations to deliver mandatory EU lobby transparency.

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ALTER-EU: A decade of campaigning for transparency, ethics, accountability and democracy in Brussels
After a decade of lobby scandals and debate on how to secure transparency and ethics, the European Commission needs to go beyond half measures.
2015/09/03
ALTER-EU: 10 years of successful campaigning
Since our creation in 2005, the Alliance for lobbying transparency and ethics regulation (ALTER-EU) has been at the forefront of campaigns to tackle excessive lobbying influence and conflicts of interest at the European level.  
2015/09/02
ALTER-EU complaints to the EU transparency register regarding misleading entries
ALTER-EU has submitted five complaints to the EU lobby register secretariat concerning the entries of organisations that we consider have under-reported their true lobby expenditure.
2015/07/28
Who is meeting whom? The lobby meetings of the new European Commission
Six months after Juncker’s announcement that his new EU Commission would publish details of all high level meetings, ALTER-EU looks at the evidence to see who’s been meeting whom,  and whether lobby meetings are still slipping under the transparency radar
2015/06/24
Whose representatives? MEPs on the industry payroll
Potential conflicts of interest persist in EU parliament – new research Potential conflicts of interest continue to plague the European Parliament one year after elections, finds new research released today.
2015/06/18

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