The EU has curiously removed from the internet a report on lobbying transparency that they themselves wrote. ‘Lobbying in the EU: the cost of a lack of transparency‘ was published this month and could be found on the EU’s website until two days ago. It has since mysteriously vanished…

In the briefing, the EU criticises itself for the way it handles lobbying, reporting a “lack of official (and reliable) estimates of the number of interest groups that lobby the EU institutions“, a “deficiency of reliable information on the typology of EU interest groups“, a “shortage of information on lobbying expenditure” and “conflicts of interest“. In the interests of transparency, the Guido has published the report in full below…

Covering up its own report on transparency? The opaque EU strikes again…