Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transparency. Show all posts
Sunday, August 27, 2017

The Transparency Illusion

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What should the ecotax revenue be spent on? Don't all answer tourism because that would be too simple. In terms of tourism, the best one...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

One Door Closes .... Or Fannying Around

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So, Fanny, welcome to the increasingly evaporating Balearic government. Do you know that your surname, Tur, if you were to add an umlaut, me...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Confidence Lost

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Confidence. A virtue that one has and a virtue that others bestow upon one. Or remove. There has been much confidence removed and lost over ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Spinning For All It's Worth: Corruption

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There are things that are always with us. In Spain, at any rate. Like the poor, there are the corrupt. Of the latter, perhaps we had been lu...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The Politics Of Opacity: Spain's transparency bill

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When he became mayor of Pollensa, Tomeu Cifre vowed that there would be greater transparency in respect of town hall affairs. The demand for...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Biter Bit: The PP and corruption

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The national government of the Partido Popular is trying its hardest not to appear to be squirming, but squirming is what it should be doing...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

MALLORCA TODAY - Alcúdia's financial situation shown on town hall website

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Alcúdia town hall, with a surplus of 11 million euros, has set out an analysis of its financial situation since 2007 on the municipality...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

Read My Lips: Spanish freedom of information

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The first of May 1997 was a glorious spring day, so also was the second of May, its gloriousness only slightly tarnished by tiredness and a ...