Difference between revisions of "Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisors"
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| − | *[[John Bowis]] - joined Fipra as a 'special adviser' for health and environmental policy in June 2009. <ref> [http://www.fipra.com/people/john_bowis~192/ John Bowis], Fipra, accessed 4 November 2014 </ref> | + | *[[John Bowis]] - former British MEP who joined Fipra as a 'special adviser' for health and environmental policy in June 2009. <ref> [http://www.fipra.com/people/john_bowis~192/ John Bowis], Fipra, accessed 4 November 2014 </ref> Bowis was one of a number of MEPs involved in an EU lobbying scandal in 2008, when it was revealed they sat on a special board for 28 multinational companies that had set up their own lobbying office in the [[European Parliament]] using a parliamentary telephone number and address.<ref>The European Alliance of EU-Critical Movements, [http://www.teameurope.info/node/262 Secret multinationals’ office revealed in the European Parliament], www.teameurope.info, 24 April 2008, accessed 5 March 2010</ref> |
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Revision as of 02:45, 2 January 2015
Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers (Fipra) is a European public affairs consultancy network specialising in advice on political and regulatory issues. It claims to be the only consultancy with public affairs advisers in Brussels, throughout the Member States of the European Union (EU), as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States and China.
It is made up of a network of senior Public Policy and Regulatory Advisers specialising in Strategic Government Relations. Advice includes: UK and EU political contact programmes; select committee training; and integrated political and media campaigns.[1] Work is handled either locally by the companies in our group or centrally by Fipra EU - a company owned by its UK Partner Finsbury, a financial, regulatory and political communications firm."[2]
People
- John Bowis - former British MEP who joined Fipra as a 'special adviser' for health and environmental policy in June 2009. [3] Bowis was one of a number of MEPs involved in an EU lobbying scandal in 2008, when it was revealed they sat on a special board for 28 multinational companies that had set up their own lobbying office in the European Parliament using a parliamentary telephone number and address.[4]
Contacts
Tenter House
45 Moorfields
London EC2Y 9AE
Website: http://www.fipra.com
References
- ↑ Fipra website, accessed Feb 2009
- ↑ Finsbury website, accessed November 2008
- ↑ John Bowis, Fipra, accessed 4 November 2014
- ↑ The European Alliance of EU-Critical Movements, Secret multinationals’ office revealed in the European Parliament, www.teameurope.info, 24 April 2008, accessed 5 March 2010
