{"id":38795,"date":"2015-07-24T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sg.admk-dev.de\/invitation-transparent-clean-accountable-conference-3-september-brussels\/"},"modified":"2015-07-24T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:33:12","slug":"invitation-transparent-clean-accountable-conference-3-september-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sven-giegold.de\/en\/invitation-transparent-clean-accountable-conference-3-september-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation: \u201cTransparent, clean, accountable: Lessons from international best practice for the EU institutions\u201d on 3 September in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"

70 percent of EU citizens believe the institutions of the Union to be corrupt. The European Commission\u2019s first anti-corruption report<\/a> puts the losses caused by bribery across Europe at EUR 120 billion per year. It is to be assumed that \u201ccorrupt\u201d is understood by citizen also in the sense of political corruption, conflicts of interest, revolving doors and intransparent lobby influence. The European Parliament appointed Sven Giegold as rapporteur for an initiative report for transparency, integrity and accountability in the EU institutions. The time for progress is good: The Juncker commission started with a promise for more transparency and already started to meet only registered lobbyists and publish their lobby meetings. Commission and the European Parliament\u2019s Bureau prepare together two new Interinstitutional Agreements on a better Lobby Transparency Register and on Better Law Making. The Parliament in the meantime discusses an overhall of Rules of Procedure including how to deal with conflicts of interests and their sanctioning.<\/p>\n

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We want to use this formal demand to the EU Commission for an EU law using hard rules to allow citizens new trust in our European Democracy. The initiative report can bring all those processes forward towards more transparency of lobbyism, of institutions themselves, an eben better fight against corruption. EU institutions are already comparatively transparent says Transparency International in a recent ranking of member state and European institutions. Yet to lead by example EU institutions have to incorporate international best practise. This conference will bring together the leading anti-corruption fighters from Romania, the tough checking experts on declarations of interest in France and staff from the Secretariat of the Canadian Lobby Transparency register that\u2019s 9 times larger than the EU one.<\/p>\n

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To bring together experts, citizen and politicians we invite on 3rd September 2015, 15:00-17:00 to the European Parliament in Brussels. Please REGISTER HERE: http:\/\/www.greens-efa.eu\/index.php?id=687<\/a><\/p>\n

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Programme<\/h2>\n

15:00-15:15<\/p>\n

Welcome: Benedek Javor, MEP (Green, Hungarian)<\/p>\n

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Panel 1 – 15:15-16:00<\/p>\n

Transparency towards citizens and on documents<\/b><\/h3>\n