Europe Transparent (Europa Transparant) is a political party in the Netherlands. The founder of the party, Paul van Buitenen, announced the party's establishment on 8 April 2004. In the 2004 election to the European Parliament the party gained two seats, after a campaign that cost no more than €4,000. Van Buitenen and the number two on the list, Els de Groen, who has written about corruption scandals in Eastern Europe, have joined the European Greens–European Free Alliance party group as independent members. The Eerste Kamer (literally First Chamber in Dutch) is the Upper House or Senate of the Netherlands parliament, the States-General. ... The Tweede Kamer is the second chamber or lower house of the Staten-Generaal, the parliament in the Netherlands. ... The cabinet of the Netherlands or council of ministers plans and implements government policy. ... The Prime Minister of the Netherlands or Minister President is in the Politics_of_the_Netherlands the head of government and active executive authority of the Dutch Government. ... This article lists political parties in the Netherlands. ... Elections in the Netherlands gives information on election and election results in the Netherlands. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ... Paul van Buitenen (born May 28, 1957 in Breda) was a Dutch civil servant who became the whistle blower whose allegations of fraud and mismanagement within the European Commission in 1998 led to the resignation of Jacques Santer and the other commissioners (of which Edith Cresson was particularly criticised). ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... This article is about political corruption. ... Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. ... The European Greens - European Free Alliance (The Greens/European Free Alliance; Greens/EFA; French: Le Groupe Verts/Alliance libre européenne; Les Verts/ALE, German Fraktion der Grünen/Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament. ... Party groups in the European Parliament combine the MEPs from European political parties, informal European political blocs, and independents. ...

The party claims to be apolitical: they aim to fight for more open European government, against fraud, corruption and favouring of friends. Because the pursuit of this goal is their primary occupation, they participate only to a limited extent in the normal system of debates, reports, meetings, etc. In the broadest sense a fraud is any crime (or civil wrong) for gain that utilises some deception practiced on the victim as its principal method. ...

Their ultimate goal is to be able to disband themselves when they have made the European Union transparent. The European Union or EU is an intergovernmental organisation of European countries, which currently has 25 member states. ...

External link

• Official website (http://www.europatransparant.nl/) (in Dutch)