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Story: 'Deceptive' patent lobbying sparks calls for transparency

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Hear hear. Indeed transparancy is needed so EU politics can regain public trust again.

The public needs to become more aware who's funding what kind of information our EU politicians get and what kind of impact that has on them and their decision making process. It's my guess that once that's achieved the public will be in for a shock and soon after that a wake up call for the politicians will follow.

Politicians who would rather like to hide their various information sources are in my book unfitted for such public positions. They aren't called 'public positions' just because that sounds nice, you see.

Disclosure is simply required because what do they have to fear or hide anyway? Also, such disclosure should be achieved in various ways via various solutions from various vendors and providers. Just to ensure that no-one can point the finger of 'information control' to anyone.

Ofcourse there will be moments when certain information needs to be classified for some specific amount of time. But then the grounds for that should at least be listed as well as the conditions that should be met on which disclosure will follow.

Would the above cost time and money? For sure, but then trust is a vital aspect of democracy.

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