Lobby register : Timmermans pushes EP and Council to act

"Everybody in Brussels is 'in principle' in favour of transparency. Now we need to take it to concrete level," declared the European Commission's First Vice-President Frans Timmermans at an 11 May conference on lobbying transparency sponsored by the European ombudsman. He urged the co-legislators, Parliament and the Council, to adopt a common approach to transparency, notably with the lobby register , since the Council is not participating in the initiative. Parliament could be stricter, hinted the commissioner, copying the new…