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Who’s driving the agenda at DG Enterprise and Industry?

Publication date: 
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
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Lead author: Yiorgos Vassalos Co-authors: Athena Christofi, Natacha Cingotti, Timo Lange, Rachel Tansey

The Commission’s advisory groups provide expert advice on specific issues, which is often used to shape new policies or even to form the backbone of new legislation. The Commission’s reliance on advice from big business within these groups has previously been criticised, with MEPs urging action to ensure more balance.

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Dodgy Data: time to fix the EU Transparency Register

Publication date: 
Monday, June 25, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU

One year after the introduction of the European Union’s Transparency Register, analysis by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) suggests that although the number of lobbies now registered has increased, far too many active EU lobby players are still not on the list.

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Translations into German, French and Spanish, of 'Revolving Doors' report executive summary

Publication date: 
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Author: 
ALTER-EU, C%rditrad

La “puerta giratoria” que parece unir a las instituciones de la UE con el sector privado..
Le « pantouflage » qui relit directement les institutions de l’Union européenne au secteur privé..
Die “Drehtür” welche die EU-Institutionen direkt mit dem Privatsektor zu verbinden..

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Stronger ethics regulation
 

Block the revolving door: why we need to stop EU officials becoming lobbyists

Publication date: 
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Too few checks are being made on ex-Commission officials who move into jobs in the lobby industry, resulting in abuses of power, according to a report published today (Thursday 24 November) by ALTER-EU.

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The missing millions – how the new lobby register needs to tackle the 'under-reporting' by industry lobby groups

Publication date: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Millions of euros of lobby spending are missing from the lobby register declarations made by key industry groups, the ALTER-EU coalition has revealed on the eve of the launch of the new joint transparency register for the Parliament and Commission.

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Report on Goldman Sachs released: 'Doing God's Work'

Publication date: 
Monday, March 21, 2011
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SpinWatch

SpinWatch' research show just how pervasive the presence of Goldman Sachs is in Brussels, although on the surface it is nowhere. But scratch that surface and it is everywhere. It can operate through a dozen or so highly active lobbying groups, it sits on the Commission’s expert groups which have a direct influence on policy

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Bursting the Brussels Bubble

Publication date: 
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Author: 
Susan George, ALTER-EU Steering Committee, Will Dinan, Spinwatch & Erik Wesselius, Corporate Europe Observatory, Jorgo Riss, Greenpeace, Marc Gruber, European Federation of Journalists, Dieter Plehwe, LobbyControl, Vicky Cann, World Development Movement, Yiorgos Vassalos, Corporate Europe Observatory, Kenneth Haar, Yiorgos Vassalos, Corporate Europe Observatory & Andy Rowell, Spinwatch, Olivier Hoedeman, Corporate Europe Observatory, Nina Katzemich, LobbyControl, Craig Holman, Public Citizen, Frank van Schaik, Tony Bunyan, Statewatch, Paul de Clerck, Friends of the Earth Europe, Claude Turmes & Fred Thoma, Green Group in the European Parliament, Nils Mulvad, Brigitte Alfter & Jack Thurston, www.farmsubsidy.org, Christian Humborg, Transparency International Germany,

the battle to expose corporate lobbying at the heart of the EU

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