Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the …
The Pope’s lobbyist
The EU Bubble Original The Pope’s foreseen visit to the European Parliament in November is not merely a symbolic occurrence. Many atheists would just wave their hand away at the thought of it. However, the pope is the head of …
Tobacco lobbying
University of Oxford, Prof. David Stuckler A study has tracked how the dominance of language that first appeared in tobacco industry’s submissions gradually crept into the final drafts of the European tobacco directive passed by the European parliament earlier this …
Who owns a Commissioner’s Twitter account, and its followers?
2014 is the big change-over year in the EU institutions. A new European Parliament was elected in May 2014, and a new European Commission will take office in late autumn 2014. Some Commissioners will stay on, but probably with new …
In defence of lobbying
Five young consultants take on critics of the public-affairs profession We are young, European, and working in the ‘Brussels bubble’. Former political-science students, we chose to become public-affairs practitioners because we were passionate about politics and the prospect of a …