Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-14-Speech-3-283-125"
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"I supported this report, which emphasises the fact that since the Treaty of Lisbon came into force, the European Parliament, Council and Commission, as well as the European External Action Service (EEAS), must allow access to EU documents. This is in keeping with the increased attention now being focused on relations between citizens and the EU administration, with a view to greater transparency. There is still strong resistance among some Member States, in terms of access to the information and national documents exchanged as part of the legislative process, denying access to documents concerning international agreements, or leaving out the names of Member States from the conclusions of debates. This secrecy is unacceptable. We should draw upon the arguments put forward by the European Court of Justice in the ‘Turco’ judgment, in which it stated that transparency ‘contributes to [...] greater legitimacy, efficiency and accountability of the institutions vis-à-vis citizens in a democratic system’. We have everything to gain from transparency. I therefore uphold the principle of access to documents, whilst denial of access must be done for good reason and as an exception."@en1
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