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The battle for data privacy sets digital rights activists against what Commission Vice-President Reding describes as some of the most aggressive industry lobbying she has ever witnessed. Areas of ALTER-EU's work that are important in the fight for data privacy are the demand for a mandatory lobbying register to end lobbying secrecyand shutting the revolving door for employees between EU institutions and private lobbying firms.

Chroniques de Lobbycratie - Avril 2013

Rassemblement de solidarité organisé par CEO, la Centrale Nationale des Employés (CNE), les Comités Action Europe (CAE) et Ander Europa à Mercredi 23 Mai à 18h ATTENTION changement de lieu parce que la police nous a interdit notre rassemblement sur la rue de loi. Nous le maintenons en le déplaçant de quelques mètres. Rendez-vous à 18h dans le parc du Cinquantenaire aux grilles côté Schuman sur l'Avenue de la Joyeusese Entrée

Kenneth Haar and Yiorgos Vassalos join a TNI podcast discussion on the eurozone crisis and the Greek decision to hold a referendum.

http://www.tni.org/multimedia/will-mercozy-deal-save-greece-and-euro

Campaigners today challenged the democratic legitimacy of the European Commission’s Expert Groups after the Commission said it was perfectly acceptable that some of them were dominated by big business [1].

The civil society coalition ALTER-EU has today written [2] to the European Commission to question its position, which campaigners say allows business to exert control over significant areas of policy and decision making.