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News - Wobbing Europe relaunched

BRUSSELS - The Pascal Decroos Fund is proud to present the relaunch of Wobbing Europe. Wobbing.eu inspires and supports journalists to use their right to freedom of information.

'Access to Documents and Transparency in the EU: a practical guide & the future of EU transparency law'

DUBLIN - With the EU playing a greater role in Irish domestic affairs, there is an ever-growing need to make effective requests for documents held by EU institutions.

News - Overview of all FOI laws

AMSTERDAM - FOI expert Roger Vleugels releases a new overview of all FOI laws. The architecture of this overview changed and has now seperate lists for national, sub-national and international FOIAs. 238 FOI laws in 84 countries

Right to Know dag

DEN HAAG - Op 28 september 2010 is de internationale Right to Know dag. Deze dag is uitgeroepen om het bewustzijn van het recht op informatie te vergroten en knelpunten op verschillende niveau’s onder de aandacht te brengen. In Nederland wordt op de Right to Know in Den Haag een bijeenkomst georganiseerd.

News - Internationale samenwerking media over Afghanistan

STOCKHOLM - Een nieuwe mijlpaal voor de onderzoeksjournalistiek: Der Spiegel, The Guardian, de New York Times kregen enkele weken geleden inzage in negentigduizend documenten van het Amerikaanse leger in Afghanistan. Zondag publiceerden de drie hun verhaal.

News - Huge leak of US Military files posted on Wikileaks

STOCKHOLM - Whistleblowers' website Wikileaks obtained the files and made them available to The Guardian newspaper as well as the New York Times and German weekly Der Spiegel.

News - Informatiebescherming in IJsland

REYKJAVIK - Het IJslandse parlement heeft unaniem een wet aangenomen waardoor de vrijheid van meningsuiting en van informatie wordt versterkt. Nieuwsorganisaties, blogs en andere personen en instanties kunnen namelijk gevoelige informatie veilig onderbrengen op het eiland.

(Self) censorship new challenges for freedom of expression in expression in Europe

BRUSSELS - Journalists, artists and publicists in Europe are increasingly confronted with censorship and self-censorship. Freedom of expression, as well as journalistic freedom is not automatic anymore.

Working Grant - Belgian Minister of Finance Reynders mocks parliament

Mathias Bienstman | Berber Verpoest

BRUSSELS — Due to the banking crisis the Belgian governement had to bail out 4 major financial institutions in 2008 and 2009 to prevent them from bankrupcy. Fortis, KBC, Dexia and Ethias initially received more than 20 billion of tax payers' money which they will have to reimburse eventually. But which role does the government play in the meantime now that it acquired seats as an important stakeholder in the governing boards of these banks?