Lobbying data more easily accessible

Three NGOs - Corporate Europe Observatory, LobbyControl and Friends of the Earth Europe - launched, on 30 September, a new lobby web tool assembling data about lobbying in Brussels. The project LobbyFacts.eu is based on information provided by the lobbies themselves in the EU’s Transparency Register . Maintaining that the register is too rigid and not easy to use, the NGOs are proposing that it be “digested in order to extract interesting information”. The aim is to allow journalists, activists,…