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Collusions en chain a Bruxelles

Publication date: 
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Author: 
Jerome Canard
Media title: 
Le Canard Enchaine
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Collusions en chain a Bruxelles.pdf
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door

Self-regulation not an option for EU lobbying

Publication date: 
Monday, October 29, 2012
Author: 
Koen Roovers
Media title: 
EU Observer
Teaser: 

Two weeks after ex-health-commissioner Dalli's resignation in what has become known as "Dalligate" - a scandal described by public health campaigners as the biggest interference of the tobacco lobby in European politics to date - Philip Sheppard's plea for self-regulation of the lobbyist profession published on 16 October appears delusional.

Link to original article: 
http://euobserver.com/opinion/118021

Multi-million-euro market for inside EU knowledge

Publication date: 
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Author: 
Andrew Rettman
Media title: 
EU Observer
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Lobbyists resent the idea that their profession is somehow shady or harms public interests. [..] But morality has its limits.

Link to original article: 
http://euobserver.com/secret-ue/117734
Campaign: 
Block the revolving door

Lobbies et Union européenne

Publication date: 
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Author: 
Philippe Antoine
Media title: 
RTBF
Teaser: 

Les lobbies sont-ils les vrais détenteurs du pouvoir dans l'Union européenne. C'est une question légitime lorsque l'on voit leur nombre et l'argent qu'ils dépensent. Une partie de la réponse dans l'enquête menée par Philippe Antoine autour du siège des Institutions bruxelloises.

Link to original article: 
http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/dossier/l-europe-et-vous/detail_lobbies-et-union-europeenne?id=7848738
Campaign: 
Greater lobbying transparency

Ethics code has to keep MEPs in check

Publication date: 
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Author: 
Natacha Cingotti
Media title: 
European Voice
Teaser: 

On 9 August, the European Voice reported that Austrian authorities had charged a former MEP, Ernst Strasser, with corruption following the 2011 ‘cash-for-influence' scandal. The case of another MEP, Adrian Severin, who was incriminated in the same scandal, is even more worrying.

Link to original article: 
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/ethics-code-has-to-keep-meps-in-check-/75070.aspx
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Code of Conduct EP

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