In our latest online webinar, we convened three experts to speak around the topic of how Freedom of Information works in practice – in other words, how does the law work when it comes into contact with the real world?

Speakers were:

• Toby Mendel, Centre for Law and Democracy
• Giovanni Esposito, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Mária Žuffová, European University Institute

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Transcript

Myf Nixon 0:00 Hello again. Today we’re sharing our latest online webinar, which was called “Putting transparency to the test: evaluating FOI in practice”.

Myf Nixon 0:10 So the idea here was to look at how Freedom of Information is supposed to work on paper, and how it actually works when it comes into contact with the real world. (more…)