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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: October 2009
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Wednesday, 28 October 2009. BusinessEurope's conference inside Commission's building blocked. Under the slogan 'Our Climate, not your business'. A group of climate activists blocked BusinessEurope's conference. 8220;I can understand that some more concerned citizens get angry when they see the positions taken by BusinessEurope,” said MEP Claude Turmes to the European Voice. Last year and are now letting their negotiating position for Copenhagen be influenced by them. Carbon C...
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Brussels Sunshine: November 2011
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Lifting the veil of EU lobbying secrecy. Friday, 25 November 2011. Block the revolving door! Brussels bubble watchers might remember the names of Verheugen. 8211; all former EU commissioners who left public service and went through the revolving door into lobby jobs or other jobs which provoked conflicts of interest with their former work. Their cases caused a furore and led to the development of a code of conduct for commissioners and some (slightly) tighter rules. The names of Carl. The former Head of ...
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: December 2008
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Sunday, 7 December 2008. Discuss with the EU's elite and be inspired by America's best". This was the motto of the European Agenda Summit 2008. Held in Brussels on Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 December at the Renaissance Hotel. 8212; a five-star Marriott located at a stone throw from the European Parliament. Most of the 200 participants attending the event were professional lobbyists moving in the. Bubble, but a few Commission officials and MEPs' assistants were also present.
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Brussels Sunshine: Better control of EU revolving door needed
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Lifting the veil of EU lobbying secrecy. Wednesday, 25 July 2012. Better control of EU revolving door needed. A role for which his time at EMA would undoubtedly have been useful preparation. On Dr Lönngren's new consultancy work. Professor Salvatore was quoted in the Financial Times on 5 July 2012. At the original time of writing, the review had yet to report. Now (6 August 2012) this review has reported back and EMA has imposed several conditions upon Salvatore. You can read all the latest detai...An in...
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: March 2009
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Wednesday, 11 March 2009. Commission takes financial advice from "independent" bankers. Hero’s welcome for banking advisor’s "wise words". Onno Ruding, a paid advisor to Citigroup. And a member of President Barroso’s ‘committee of wise-men’ on financial supervision (known as the de Larosière group), presented the group's findings to a select audience this week at an event in Brussels. Commission flies the flag for the de Larosière report. David Wright, the deputy director-gen...
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: July 2009
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Monday, 20 July 2009. The new European Parliament: too close to business? Many key committees will for the next five years be headed by MEPs who have a record of close links with big business interests in decisions on environment and consumer rights. This highlights the need to improve the European Parliament’s current rules on corporate donations and links to commercial interests. In an interview published by Euractiv. Many key committees will for the next five years be head...
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: Artistic protest against industry lobby power in EU quarter
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Wednesday, 16 February 2011. Artistic protest against industry lobby power in EU quarter. On 2nd February, in the middle of the afternoon, an unusual demonstration took place in Brussels. Organised by a collective of Brussels-based citizens and activists aiming to tackle corporate lobbying power with an artistic take, it took the form of a guided tour focusing on the EU Quarter's corporate lobbying hotspots. A bike transformed into a mobile anti-lobbying paintings gallery.
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Summit in the Brussels bubble – “Getting it right for Copenhagen”
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Inside the Brussels' Bubble. Thursday, 8 October 2009. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Summit in the Brussels bubble – “Getting it right for Copenhagen”. On 6 October, Forum Europe and the Norway-based Bellona Foundation brought together a room packed with industry players together in luxury hotel in the Brussels EU quarter to talk about EU funding possibilities for CCS and how to make CCS accepted by the public. Sanjeev Kumar of WWF, the only invited NGO to speak, said that industry would ‘shoot ...
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Brussels Sunshine: September 2012
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Lifting the veil of EU lobbying secrecy. Tuesday, 18 September 2012. What was discussed during Commissioner Rehn's meetings with Goldman Sachs? Euro Commissioner has a transparency problem. In February this year I set out to find out more about who Commissioner Rehn has been consulting with about the Commission’s eurocrisis policies, including the Troika programmes. I submitted an online request for access. I asked the Commission to do another search. Covering the full range of documents I had requested&...
