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 lose relationship between corporate lobbyista and European civil servants. Corporate lobbyists now outnumber EC officials by a factor of about 5 to one, according to conservative estimates.
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Lobbying industry organisations
- Association Francaise des Conseils en Affaires Publique
- European Public Affairs Consultants Association
- EUlobby.net
- Society of European Affairs Professionals - SEAP
Peak Business Associations
- European Chemical Industry Council CEFIC
- 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
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]
Trade press
Academic connections
Foundations
Key lobbyists
EU lobbying consultancies
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