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1. Brussels – insulated with cash
(Articles/European politics)
... this June it is timely to consider what the Scottish public might actually be voting for in the next few months. Most electors would struggle to name their MEP, and fewer still have any idea what they ...
2. The 'Propaganda Myths' of Giles Chichester MEP
(Blogs/David Miller - Unspun)
David Miller, 28 November 2008 Giles Chichester is the Conservative MEP who had to stand down as the leader of the party in the European Parliament over a breach of expenses rules in June 2008. He wrote ...
The European Business and Parliament Scheme s meant to further MEPs understanding of business issues. According to the Parliament.com website there are concerns that it is doing something very different: ...
4. Greens fume over lobbying
(News/Lobbying)
... groups of a stitch-up. The European Parliament has decided to allow only MEPs from its three largest groups to take part in a review of rules governing the behaviour of lobbyists, a decision that drew ...
... bad reputation, Romanian MEP Daniel Daianu told a conference last week, claiming that "honesty and transparency are needed more than ever".  ...
6. Reining in the influence industry
(Blogs/David Miller - Unspun)
... operandi. The system governing the behaviour of officials allows for widespread conflicts of interest. Parliamentary rules for MEPs have been described by one British MEP as a "scandal waiting to happen". ...
SPINWATCH EXCLUSIVE Europe’s leaders are sleepwalking into the issue of MEP’s links with commercial interests, warns a new report launched today by SpinWatch. The report, Too Close for Comfort? investigates ...
8. Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008
(Articles/Lobbying)
... in the aviation sector. The five candidates for the Worst Conflict of Interest Award are: Dr Caroline Jackson MEP - nominated for her twin roles as an elected representative dealing with environmental ...
9. Gordon's Problem with Mandy
(Articles/British Politics)
... They accused Mandelson of having “strings that are pulled by European lobby groups and multinationals”. Mandelson was quick to annoy his critics at the European Parliament too. When the Green MEP ...
10. The Coming Car Industry Crunch?
(Articles/Car Industry)
... huge political fight in Brussels to try and get the European car industry – and especially the Germans – to be more fuel efficient. On the one side are progressive MEPs, and members of the European Commission ...
... inappropriate favours or other improper lobbying tactics to influence decision making within the EU.    2. The Worst Conflict of Interest Award - nominations sought for the MEP, European Commissioner ...
12. Shhhh! It’s the L-Word
(News/Lobbying)
... clients for the shifting regulatory environment. Influence to change things mostly comes from well-presented arguments and useful information, especially to those who are most starved for it: MEPs. “We ...
13. Can Cameron banish sleaze?
(News/British Politics)
... ongoing woes with expenses and allowances? And will the Conservative party leadership be able to tame its MEPs? Lots of questions, but no real clear answer. The new code for Conservative MEPs will mean ...
... by the next European elections, in a year's time. "We want a one-stop shop. Lobbyists will have to register only once and it will be de facto mandatory," Ms Rampi said. She said MEPs were ...
... MEPs or Peter Mandelson [trade commissioner] directly about it, that is lobbying." Not surprisingly, advocates of a more transparent lobbying system agree. As Erik Wesselius, of the Alliance for Lobbying ...
... influential LGBT people in British politics. He is one of the few out politicians in the EU - only two out of 785 MEPs are openly gay. Last week the Irish people rejected the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, ...
... Caroline Lucas MEP whose South-East England constituency is home to two nuclear power plants at Dungeness, said: "Brown's bung-and-bribe strategy shows that he knows just how unworkable his nuclear ...
... MEP and chair of Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee Jo Leinen said last week that he does not know where the 15,000 figure comes from. As for Parliament, it has granted some 5,000 access ...
19. Spinning Farmed Salmon (part 3 of 3)
(Articles/Food Industry)
... Prepare and issue initial media statement to c.600 named UK media contacts as well as MEPs, MSPs, civil servants and via newswire distribution, some 22,500 international media outlets.75 SQS and Chrome ...
Timesonline,  Nicola Smith and Jon Ungoed-Thomas, 8/6/2008 Two Tory MEPs have resigned in a week, but the trouble has not stopped there for the Tory leader THE former Tory minister Sir Robert Atkins ...
21. Labour Friends of Israel
(Articles/British Politics)
... of Cartvale – Chair (House of Lords) Vice Chairs Andrew Dismore MP Louise Ellman MP Barbara Keeley MP Gary Titley MEP Mike Gapes MP (former VC) Policy Council Stephen Byers MP Lord ...
Timesonline,  Nicola Smith, 1/6/2008 The leader of the Conservative MEPs, Giles Chichester, has channelled almost £500,000 in parliamentary allowances through a family firm founded by his father, ...
... comes a month after the commission unveiled proposals to update a 2001 law on document transparency that has been subject to strong criticism by MEPs and NGOs for being too restrictive. But according ...
... but the ECCJ wants the law to be extended to corporations and executive directors. "Now is the time for the EU to have the political will to implement these proposals," said UK Socialist MEP ...
... admits "there is a lot of room for improvement".  In the Parliament, frequent visitors require an access badge, of which 5,000 have been granted, according to German Socialist MEP ...
...  When the commission set up a high-level working group, CARS 21, to look at the future of the industry, seven seats were given to car makers and just one to a pro-environmental NGO. Two of the MEPs ...
... door. Former MPs, MEPs and Ministers Jack Cunningham, Richard Caborn, Ian McCartney, Brian Wilson and Alan Donnelly are all now employed by the nuclear industry with obvious influence. By contrast, Sauven ...
... the Welfare State and political correctness - waiting in the wings are the 21st-century Tories whose gameplan for the future has little truck with the present. Henry Porter talks to The Group, Henry Porter, ...
... Parliament (MEPs) prepared to visit Peru. Vidal Quadras Roca, the assembly's vice-president, contacted a fellow MEP organising the trip to inform him that participants could see first-hand projects ...
... (8 May) vote on a lobbying report in the European Parliament. Parliament will vote on the report , originally drafted by Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb and for which German MEP Ingo Friedrich ...
... MEPs and companies. The European Business and Parliament Scheme (EBPS), whose patron is parliament chief Hans-Gert Poettering, has an office in the parliament and its employees share the same email ...
32. The lobby against lobbyists
(News/Lobbying)
... up support from MEPS and alarm from the targets. “Today’s rules for lobbying date back to a time when the only role of the European Parliament was to give opinions. We clearly need stricter ...
... Parliament will alarm some MEPs who fear this will encourage sycophancy. The test of any such contest will be its independence from the donor of the prizes and the degree to which it can reflect differing ...
34. Paisley linked to son's lobbying
(News/Northern Ireland)
...  his son at the St Andrews talks. Rebel unionist MEP Jim Allister made the call after he obtained a civil service memo on demands made to Prime Minister Tony ...
... the difficulties people face in contact with EU bodies, the report mentions a Maltese journalist's request for access to details on the payments received by MEPs such as payments for general expenditure, ...
... represent their clients’ interests. They are part of our modern pluralistic democracy, keeping MEPs informed on subjects they might otherwise lack adequate knowledge about. In the majority of member ...
... and then "Whistle-blower criticised as MEPs vote to keep their scams secret" (27.2.2008). The British newspapers are no friends of the Members of the European Parliament of the officials of the ...
... – where member states are represented. In earlier drafts of the report by Finnish centre-right MEP Alexander Stubb outlining a series of rules for lobbyists, it had been suggested that such a register ...
39. Corporate Power and the SNP government
(Articles/British Politics)
... would need to be removed in a bonfire of the quango-crats.  Two examples will suffice.  Sir Ken Collins at SEPA is a former Labour MEP.  To be fair his long experience as chair of the Environmental ...
... will gain power over almost all policies. Alex Stubb, a centre-right Finnish MEP, says the numbers of lobbyists pitching up at his office are growing regularly. He is pushing through legislation that would ...
41. Happy birthday to us, sing MEPs
(News/EU Politics)
... music. See more here. There was also the small matter of nine MEPs being formally docked up to five days’ worth of allowances for their noisy protests at the signing of the charter of fundamental ...
5 March 2008  MEP Paul Van Buitenen has published an extensive summary of the audit report which a majority of MEPs in the Budget Control Committee wanted to keep secret. The findings of the audit ...
... assistants. The European ombudsman, the EU’s administrative watchdog, said in September that MEPs should detail staff wage bills and expenses claims. The Financial Times has learned that in a reply ...
Elitsa Vucheva, EUObserver, 26/2/2008 After a heated debate, MEPs from the budgetary control committee voted on Tuesday afternoon (26 February) not to publish a confidential report detailing abuses in ...
BBC News, 21/2/2008 The EU's anti-fraud office is to look at an internal report amid claims that it has uncovered embezzlement by MEPs. The confidential audit is reported to have found that MEPs had ...
... former Labour MEP Alan Donnelly, but since September 2007 he has been paid through his own company, Brinkburn Associates. His work mainly involved giving advice on a range of issues affecting the City, ...
... of a framework for the activities of lobbyists, presented by MEP Alexander Stubb on 24 January.  Stubb's report calls for any financial disclosure requirement to apply equally to all lobbyists, ...
48. William Blum homepage
(Web Links / Alternative news and comment sites)
William Blum is the author of Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.
49. Lexington Communications
(Web Links / PR consultants)
Homepage of UK based Lexington Communications. Among other things, Lexington run front groups such as  ...
50. Chartered Institute of Public Relations
(Web Links / PR industry organisations)
Homepage of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. the main professional body for PR people. defends the interests of the PR industry and lobbies against regulation of PR. ...
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