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The groups worry that details of EU business will be kept secret from citizens and journalists (Photo: Koen Vereeken)

Transparency NGOs call on EU not to restrict document access

by Leigh Phillips, Brussels, February 2, 2011, 8:29:09 AM
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The EU is set to tightly restrict its freedom-of-information rules just seven years after they were introduced, says an alliance of some 180 human rights organisations, transparency pressure groups and journalist unions, which have called on the European Parliament to apply the breaks to proposed legislation.

On the weekend a public letter signed by 56 investigative journalists and 131 groups including transparency and access-to-information campaigners and environmental NGOs warned that...

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The groups worry that details of EU business will be kept secret from citizens and journalists (Photo: Koen Vereeken)

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