Minister scraps plans for a lobby register to boost transparency

Home affairs minister Judith Uitermark has torn up plans to introduce a lobby register in the Netherlands to record which companies and other organisations have access to ministers and the decision-making process. Most EU countries have such a register, but the Netherlands has been dithering about the subject for years. Uitermark, an MP for the “good governance” party NSC, said instead the cabinet wants to make better use of ministers’ public diaries to track potential lobbying activities. The cabinet, she...