Madrid puts transparency on hold

"Government drops drive for transparency," reports Público, pointing out that Spain along with Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Luxembourg is one of five EU countries that has yet to legislate on public access to official documents. Promised in 2004, the public transparency billhas run aground on the question of how to define ‘sensitive’ information that should be withheld from the public. The project "is no longer a priority” for the government, remarks the daily, which also bemoans the sinking of another of the Zapatero administration’s “flagship” projects: a law on religious freedom which has been held up by the conservative opposition in parliament.