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O'Reilly wrote a letter to Juncker asking him to make expert groups more transparent and better balanced (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Top official demands transparency on EU expert groups

A top EU official is pushing for greater transparency on policy decision-making process at the European Commission.

European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, on Friday (30 January) said the commission, despite some progress, is still not doing enough to open up expert groups to public scrutiny.

“There is room for improvement if we want to be sure that the public can trust and scrutinise the work of these important groups,” said O’Reilly in a statement.

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

O'Reilly wrote a letter to Juncker asking him to make expert groups more transparent and better balanced (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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