« Contrary to popular opinion, business lobbyists are less effective than NGOs» This title summarises an important study carried out in 2015-16 by three professors at the London School of Economics (LSE) with a specific focus on consumer protection and …
Written procedure: the devil is in the detail
Written procedure: the devil is in the detail In the not too distant past, we communicated a lot about the Orphacol case, involving the authorisation of an orphan medicine via an implementing decision. The affair made great waves. We told the …
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 …
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 …