Access Info Europe June 20 chided Luxembourg for not passing a freedom of information law 11 years after one was first proposed.
The group wrote to Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and to Alex Bodry of the Chamber of Deputies, the original promoter of the law and current rapporteur in charge of this file, asking what happened since a March 2010 initiative to bring the draft back to life.
In the Europeans Union, only Cyprus, Luxembourg and Spain do not yet have a FOI law.
“Luxembourg, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, is failing to achieve even minimum standards when it comes to open government, public participation, and accountability,” commented Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info Europe.
“Testing of access to information in Luxembourg by Access Info has shown that in practice the country is falling far short of international standards,” according to the group’s statement.
A report in March, The Secret State of EU Transparency Reforms, found that Luxembourg’s government “has failed to provide information to Access Info Europe about its position regarding the reform of EU access to documents rules,” according to the statement.
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