[open-government] trade agreement use-case

Thu Feb 28 20:40:59 UTC 2013

Right, that's the point. The fact that this kind of diplomacy is always not public is not an argument against open gov but indeed an argument in favor of open gov. It makes sense from our point of view to use the sensitive issue of food to show the importance of transparency for consumers and citizens.

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Am 28.02.2013 um 20:16 schrieb "stef" <s at ctrlc.hu>:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:05:32PM +0000, Ole.Wintermann at bertelsmann-stiftung.de wrote:
>> That was also one important reason to focus on this trade agreement. We should prevent such a closed shop process at an early stage. At least we should try to foster an early public debate about that problem
> 
> counter argument last time was, that this is traditional trade diplomacy and
> that is not conducted in public as it weakens the negotiation arguments. and
> indeed, none of the negotiators is democratically elected or can be held
> accountable that way (commission is negotiating with ustr). would be nice if
> this would be attacked from as many directions possible. ;)
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