The International Right to Know Day was established in 2003 by access to information advocates from around the world. Given that there will be a new European Parliament and a new Commission in 2014, and given that his own mandate is coming to an end, the European Ombudsman is keen to examine how much progress…
Tag: Access to information
What happens behind the closed doors of the European Union?
Citizens’ have a right to know what the decisions MEPs are and what decisions are made by the European Commission. How to handle corridors of the administration of the European Union, see the Access Info’s Guide to access EU documents. Guide to access EU documents contains detailed information about the fundamental right of access to…
Citizens caught in a trap of the transparency surrogate
Budget openness (transparency) provides a possibility for citizens to access complete, relevant, accurate, timely and comprehensible information on budgets of state institutions, which rightfully belong to citizens to use – it has been pointed out during a thematic discussion “Transparency of the budgetary and public procurement process” at the conference “Right to Good Administration in…
Good governance, the glue of democracy
Citizens have the right to good administration, working for the goal of maximising common good, and not particular interests of politicians alienated from citizens. The only meaningful solution for finding a way out of this situation is the cooperation of the entire society and good governance as the glue without which there is no democracy…
Quality of governance in state government bodies
The latest public opinion surveys in Croatia reveal the decline of trust of Croatian citizens in intentions and capabilities of any political option to deal with numerous problems successfully. In parallel, citizens’ support for direct democracy movements has been on the rise, not simply as a correction but rather an alternative to parliamentary democracy. Therefore,…
Institutional and legal framework for good governance in Croatian agencies
In the past two decades the agencies in Croatia have been established following a global agencification trend endorsed by international organisations and the EU through the concepts of new public management and the regulatory state. Croatian agencies were founded without a strategic approach or legal framework, failing to incorporate elements of good governance systematically, adopting…