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The 2010 EU AidWatch Report was launched this morning in Brussels. Having ‘tracked the EU’s progress towards achieving its aid quantity and quality commitments’, the report states that most donors are yet to adequately address the important issues of aid transparency, conditionality and accountability. Read more »
In November 2005 the European Transparency Initiative was launched by the EU. Central element of the initiative is the Greenbook, a policy document on a public consultation process on transparency. This public consultation process realised in 2006 allowed all stakeholders in Europe to express their views on three key issues: lobbying of interest groups within the EU, the framework of standards for the consultation process itself and the publication of recipients of EU funds.