Monday saw the launch of Brussels leaks, which pretty much exactly what we can expect a Web site with the "-leaks" suffix to.
As its illustrious forebear WikiLeaks, leaks from Brussels wants to make extreme transparency of the decision-making process, with emphasis on the European Union.
This is a fairly rudimentary set-up by a group of professional moonlighting in Brussels working anonymously and clearly limited resources.
So far, the site consists of little more than a Q & A explaining the concept and an upload encrypted document.
Interestingly, leakage of Brussels seems not interested in the display of all documents that it receives on its own website, so that they are available to the public, as happens on WikiLeaks.
On the contrary, they describe as an intermediate "passes on the parties responsible for information" - not only in the media, but also for activists such as NGOs.
Their theory is that many people who work in Brussels sees information they would like to see made public, but they dare put out in the open air and still don't know who might be interested in it.
In an interview with the European Journalism Centre blog email team says his focus will be on social and environmental projects, and hear leaking of transport and energy are already in the pipeline.
There have not been any major revelations so far, but the idea has generated a decent amount of buzz in the Brussels Twittersphere (certainly tiny).
As a plaisanté diplomat: "I bet the Commission are behind this," a reference to the European Union the ubiquitous Executive.
It remains uncertain, why the officials of the Commission - holders of most of the Brussels - sensitive information would pass on information to an anonymous platform rather than the usual network of journalists and the lobbyists, most is very experienced working with sensitive documents.
13 December 2010 5 h 37 in EU | Comment
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