The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states unequivocally: ‘Any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a member state, has a right of access to documents of the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union, whatever their medium’.
Despite this, the EU is increasingly hiding things from journalists, researchers and members of civil society.
Source: The European Union’s culture of secrecy is a threat to democracy