TARGETING EU DECISION MAKERS

European Commission

  1. Head of Unit
  2. The Case Handler
  3. Public Servants within the lead DG and other DGS
  4. Members of Commissioners' office
  5. The Commissioners

European Parliament

  1. The Rapporteur and the Shadows
  2. Opinion Leaders
  3. Parliamentary Assistants
  4. Administrators in Committees
  5. Group Coordinator

Council of Ministers

THE BALTIC NPP IN KALININGRAD: A WORTHWHILE OPTION TO CONSIDER

Nuclear power can solve some of Europe’s most pressing energy issues. The European energy sector is facing a triple challenge: decarbonisation of the economy, security of supply, and affordability. There are opportunities for Baltic electricity markets integration via third-party infrastructure, for example by using the Baltic NPP in the Kaliningrad region in Western Russia. 

MAINSTREAM AND INDEPENDENT ON-LINE NEWS SOURCES

The fact that most major news outlets are controlled by a handful of massive, powerful companies, is becoming of growing concern in America. It is vitally important that citizens in the U.S. become more skeptical of the news that is being fed to them by these huge corporate media outlets and find alternative means of learning about what is actually happening in their country and around the world. What they find might be rather shocking in its contradiction to what they are spoon fed on a daily basis.

THE ELECTORAL INTEGRITY PROJECT

The Electoral Integrity Project (EIP) is an independent research project based at the University of Sydney and Harvard University. For the past four years, the EIP has been bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss effective research and how to design evidence-based programming that will increase the integrity of elections. Since the EIP’s inception, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) has been an active participant in the project.

Electoral Laws

ERRORS IN POLITICAL POLLING

Polling is a complicated business. The key thing to understand is that the margin of error does not always describe the true error inherent in the poll, so polls that boast a small error can end up being completely wrong.

AALEP SUPPORTS INDUSTRY ALLIANCE AEGIS EUROPE

AEGIS Europe brings together nearly 30 European associations representing a broad variety of industries including traditional industries, consumer branches, SMEs and renewable energy sectors, accounting for more than €500 billion in annual turnover and millions of jobs across the EU. This industry alliance, made up of leaders in sustainable manufacturing and social and environmental responsibility, is committed to European manufacturing as the fundamental driver of innovation, growth and jobs in Europe.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF GRANTING MARKET ECONOMY STATUS (MES) TO CHINA: THE LAST THING THE EU NEEDS

Chinese enterprises dump more products into Europe’s open market than any other country in the world. Indeed, over 60% of all the EU's anti-dumping measures are against China.

The enormous EU-China trade deficit grows every year. China has been able to dramatically increase exports to Europe by an average of over 11% per year over the past fifteen years, rising from €75 billion in value in 2000 to €360 billion in 2015. Europe’s trade relationship with China is not balanced and is made worse by dumping.

BUSINESS AS USUAL NO LONGER AN OPTION FOR THE EU

It is time for Brussels to realise that “business as usual” is no longer an option; that citizens across the continent are disenchanted, and that they are right to be; that “eurosceptic,” or “problematic” countries cannot simply be dismissed when their internal politics turn nasty. In the wake of the British referendum, there has to be some collective soul-searching in the corridors of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Court of Justice.

JOURNALISTIC OBJECTIVITY OR THE LACK THEREOF

Journalistic objectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship, but most often encompasses all of these qualities.

THE REVOLVING DOOR EU STYLE

The “revolving door” – which appears to link the EU institutions directly to the private sector, allowing employees to move almost effortlessly between the two – is at the heart of the close relationship between the EU institutions and Brussels’ lobby industry. A number of former European Commissioners have gone through the revolving door; that is they have moved straight from public office into lobbying jobs. This raised serious questions about potential conflicts of interest.

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