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EU citizens filed applications to see documents 6,912 times in 2018 (Photo: European Parliament)

EU receives record number of requests for documents

The European Commission has received a record number of requests to publish documents, according to statistics released this week.

EU citizens filed applications to see documents 6,912 times in 2018.

The commission called this "a striking increase of approximately 9.5 percent in comparison with 2017", when the number of requests was 6,255.

Since the entry into force of...

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