Comments on: Slipping through the net http://blogs.euobserver.com/alfter/2009/09/17/slipping-through-the-net/ Is transparency just a buzz-word - or is there true openness and scrutiny? How comes, that European stories often are limited to coverage in one member state? How are journalists doing in Europe? Is there or can there ever be a European public sphere? Follow journalist Brigitte Alfter's Watchdog Blog. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hajo Friedrich http://blogs.euobserver.com/alfter/2009/09/17/slipping-through-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Hajo Friedrich Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:54:01 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/alfter/?p=49#comment-106 Anton: knowing, "how the 'game' works by now" is b y no means a reason not to rap politicians and officials knuckles. They have to be and they pretent to be open and transparent - for instance spending taxpayers money. Thank you, Brigittes and a few others for your commitment to show whether politicians talks on transparency are only hot air or realy offer insights. Anton, I share your indirect scepticism. But, things are to serious as to dismiss them as a "game". Look at the ongoing crisis on the financial markets: the bill for seeing and using the world as a gambling casino have only rarely to pay the gambler. It's the citizen and even future generations. Anton: knowing, “how the ‘game’ works by now” is b y no means a reason not to rap politicians and officials knuckles. They have to be and they pretent to be open and transparent – for instance spending taxpayers money.
Thank you, Brigittes and a few others for your commitment to show whether politicians talks on transparency are only hot air or realy offer insights. Anton, I share your indirect scepticism. But, things are to serious as to dismiss them as a “game”. Look at the ongoing crisis on the financial markets: the bill for seeing and using the world as a gambling casino have only rarely to pay the gambler. It’s the citizen and even future generations.

]]> By: Anton Cordelier http://blogs.euobserver.com/alfter/2009/09/17/slipping-through-the-net/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Anton Cordelier Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:13:45 +0000 http://blogs.euobserver.com/alfter/?p=49#comment-105 QUOTE: "transparency is having a bad time when it comes to fisheries". QUOTE: "This type of basic information as to who receives the European money and what they use it for should be made public in a user-friendly format on European level." ----- A little naïve, Brigitte; you should know how the "game" works by now. QUOTE: “transparency is having a bad time when it comes to fisheries”.

QUOTE: “This type of basic information as to who receives the European money and what they use it for should be made public in a user-friendly format on European level.”

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A little naïve, Brigitte; you should know how the “game” works by now.

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