Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008 – Vote now!

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

November 25, 2008 · 1 Comment

Do you remember the worstlobby awards? Now the final list of nominations has been announced! Go to worstlobby.eu, check out the nominees and vote for your favourite until November 30th! There is also quite an entertaining video on how the nominees reacted when they got the news… Do you remember the worstlobby awards? Now the [...]

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Quotes of the week

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

November 14, 2008 · 1 Comment

Although the title suggests a weekly feature I doubt that I would find something every week. To be honest I just could not come up with a better title … so here we go with some remarkable statements: via Times Online I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared. Mr Sarkozy [...]

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MEPs and Conflicts of interest…

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

July 17, 2008 · 2 Comments

Via Julien Frisch’s Blog I discovered the report “Too Close for Comfort? MEPs, corporate links and potential conflict of interests” (pdf) which has just been published by Spinwatch with quite some interesting stories on: MEPs who accept paid work and hospitality from businesses with a vested interest in their legislative work MEPs with a financial [...]

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Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

July 9, 2008 · 6 Comments

Nominations are now open for the fourth edition of the annual “Worst EU Lobbying Awards”. All the details about the awards as well as the nomination form can be found here. This year there are two categories: “Worst EU Lobbying” and “Worst Conflict of Interest”: The main ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ Award: it is to be [...]

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'Telecoms package': Is this the end of the free internet as we know it?

by Kosmopolit in EU politics

July 3, 2008 · 6 Comments

via netzpolitik I came across of some interesting details about the reform of the “European law on electronic communications” ( the so called “Telecoms Package”) which will be debated in the European Parliament next week (7 July). La Quadrature du Net / Squaring the Net, a European NGO initiative, released a press release that criticises [...]

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