EU lobbying

The European Union is increasingly at the forefront of neoliberal reforms in Europe. Much of this is taken forward as a result of the close relationship between corporate lobbyists and European civil servants. Corporate lobbyists now outnumber EC officials by a factor of about 5 to one, according to conservative estimates.

Lobbying industry organisations

• Association Francaise des Conseils en Affaires Publique
• European Public Affairs Consultants Association
• EUlobby.net
• Society of European Affairs Professionals - SEAP
• International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA)

Peak Business Associations

• European Chemical Industry Council CEFIC
• European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations
• European Roundtable of Industrialists - ERT
• European Services Forum
• Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue
• UNICE

Front Groups

• Bromine Science and Environment Forum
• Campaign for Creativity
• European Partnership for Energy and the Environment

Policy planning lobby groups

• European Corporate Governance Institute
• European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum

Think Tanks

• Afidora
• Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory
• Centre for the New Europe [1]
• Civita [2]
• Copenhagen Institute [3]
• European Science and Environment Forum
• Edmund Burke Foundation [4]
• Studienzentrum Weikersheim
• Federation of European Employers [5]
• Istituto Bruno Leoni
• Libres [6]
• Open Republic Institute [7]
• Real Instituto Elcano
• CASE - the Center for Social and Economic Research
• Timbro [8]
• The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
• The European Policy Centre (EPC)
• Friends of Europe
• Health Consumer Powerhouse
• Institut Economique Molinari
• Institut Hayek
• Institut Thomas More Brussels
• The International Council for Capital Formation
• The International Policy Network
• The Lisbon Council
• New Defence Agenda
• The Stockholm Network
• Tech Central Station

Trade Press

• Public Affairs Newsletter
• European Voice
• E! Sharp

Academic connections

• European Centre for Public Affairs
• Justin Greenwood
• Robin Pedler
• Tom Spencer

Foundations

• Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Key lobbyists

• Paul Adamson
• Stanley Crossick
• Elaine Cruikshanks
• David Earnshaw
• Christian De Fouloy
• Gerry Wade

EU lobbying consultancies

• Bruce Naughton Wade
• Burson Marstellar
• Edelman
• EPPA
• Houston Consulting

Further reading

BBC Radio Four, File On Four, documentary on EU lobbying issues (broadcast 22 November 2005) Transcript: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/22_11_05_lobbying.pdf