The European Commission has said EU freedom of information rules should be tightened up because corporate lawyers and NGOs abuse the system.
Its spokesman, Antony Gravili, told EUobserver on Wednesday (6 June) that most requests to see internal EU documents come from "lawyers for big corporations" and "nutty NGOs" instead of concerned EU citizens.
"Lawyers involved in big competition cases try to get commercially sensitive information through the back door ... If they got it, the ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.