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Researcher: EU expert groups still imbalanced and opaque
By EUobserver
The composition of the European Commission's expert groups, which give advice on policy, is becoming more balanced, but only slowly, researcher Roland Blomeyer told MEPs on Monday, presenting a study. In 23% of expert groups studied, all participants had an economic interest. Of the more than 700 groups, 107 of them had less than 40% women, failing to achieve an EU target. Only 12 groups were open to the public.