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The project is managed by Transparency International’s Brussels office and received funding from the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the King Baudouin Foundation.
Lobbyfacts makes it easy to track lobbyist influence at the EU level over time. It provides data on lobby spending and turnover, the number of lobbyists, issued EP passes and meetings with the EC, as well as other relevant information.
Powerbase provides lists and comprehensive descriptions of lobbying consultancies and of individual lobbyists.
Parltrack aims to enhance the transparency of legislative procedures. It provides easy access to information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas through a single database.
HowTheyVote combines votes, voting results and the voting behavior of individual MEPs in an easy and accessible way.
The tenders electronic daily is the EU’s public procurement journal, publishing projects and tenders. Analyzing the data is tricky, to say the least, and so a group of journalists, developers and researchers started OpenTED. The website has published the data in an accessible, text-friendly format since 2012. It takes some spreadsheet skills and a slightly more powerful computer to have a go at it, but OpenTED takes a first crack at opening EU spending data.
Open Security Data Europe monitors and displays the amount of money spent by the EU on security-related projects like policing, border control, counter-terrorism, cybersecurity and military equipment.
Farmsubsidy.org provides insights into how the EU farming subsidies are spent.
For organizations headquartered in Brussels, annual accounts are available here: