24.01.08: MEPs debate tightening up lobbying rules - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Jan 08
  

  Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

  eu-interest-groups eu_and_enterprises europeanparliament interest-groups lobbying

  • MEPs in the constitutional affairs committee generally agreed that the term should be defined as widely as possible.
     
     They also agreed that the European Commission and parliament should set up a common register of all the lobbyists in Brussels, with estimates suggesting there are around 15,000 of them in the city pressing their case at the European institutions.
  • or his part, Mr Stubb says he is not out to demonise lobbyists, whose activities have come to light recently during the ferocious lobbying on legislation that took place during the development of the chemicals, services and software patent laws.
     
     He points out that it is much easier to get information as a civil servant, but that as an MEP, "you are out of the [information] loop and interest groups are good sources of information."

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