His Master’s Voice? Ceremony Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010. Another former EU commissioner joins PR sector. BRUSSELS - Another former EU commissioner, Peter Mandelson, has gone into the public relations business, with the British peer, former trade commissioner and former UK junior minister for business, set to become chairman of a new London-based lobby firm, Global Counsel. Mandelson: in a double revolving-doors case, left PR sector to join EU commission, and has now gone back into it (Photo: European Community, 2006) The company was registered with the UK business authority, Companies House, on 24 November, and is to have offices in Farm Street, London, in the same building as the multinational WPP advertising group, close by to the US embassy and the prestigious Ritz hotel. According to reports in leading British media, the WPP group, which also owns the Brussels-active lobby firms Burson Marsteller, Chime Communications, Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy, has made a substantial investment in Global Counsel.
Brussels pro-transparency campaigners have bemoaned the practice of 'revolving doors.' Winners of Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010 Revealed! | Worst EU Lobbying Awards. Brussels, 2nd December 2010 – RWE (npower), Goldman Sachs and derivatives lobby group ISDA have been given the dubious honour of being named the Worst EU Lobbyists of 2010.
The results of the dual climate and finance categories of the Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010 [1] were revealed today during a ceremony outside the ISDA office in Brussels. Citizens across Europe participated in an online public vote for the most deserving of the climate and finance nominees. Voters sent a clear message to EU transparency and ethics Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič that a major clean-up of the Brussels lobbying scene is urgently needed, and it’s time the European Commission put public interest above the commercial interests of large companies. [2] In the climate category [3], German energy giant RWE’s subsidiary npower, nominated for claiming to be green while lobbying to keep its dirty coal- and oil-fired power plants open, won with 58% of the total vote.
MEPs support Worst Lobby Awards! | Worst EU Lobbying Awards. Big business oppose cuts - to greenhouse gas emissions. Magda Stoczkiewicz is the director of Friends of the Earth Europe, and writes on behalf of the organisers of the Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010 Big business is supportive of many of the public service spending cuts. But UK companies, and the business associations that represent them, are lobbying hard to delay cuts in another area where they could make a positive difference: greenhouse gas emissions. Europe-based companies, including BP and Eon, have been systematically supporting members of the Senate who obstruct action on climate change and these links were revealed in a recent report by Climate Action Network Europe.
The report shows that the total money given by EU-based companies to anti-science and anti-climate candidates before the mid-term elections is higher than the sums given by Koch Industries – the second largest privately owned company in the US and a notorious funder of climate deniers. On its own this would be questionable behaviour by European businesses. Investment fund lobby draws sigh of relief | Worst EU Lobbying Awards. How does the financial lobby work? What exactly do they do to stave off regulation or weaken proposals on their way through the decision making process at the EU level? On Thursday 11th November a new directive on the regulation of “alternative investment funds” – hedge funds and private equity funds – was adopted by the European Parliament after a lengthy process. The reaction of fund managers was to breathe a deep sigh of relief. Only last year their lobby organisations had been alarmed by the prospect of new regulation, but now they were murmuring cautious satisfaction.
What made the difference? On Thursday 11th November, a new directive on the regulation of “alternative investment funds” – hedge funds and private equity funds – was finally adopted by the European Parliament. Out of Control. A "Legrosszabb Uniós Lobbizók" Díj - szavazz Te is! Lobby Cleaner to Business Europe! Worst EU Lobbying Awards. Spoiler warning: Worst corporate lobbyists in the EU revealed!
[Highlight] Have you voted in the 2010 worst EU lobbying awards yet? – CEE Bankwatch Network. Energieriese macht Eindruck | Worst EU Lobbying Awards. Von Fritz Schadow RWE, eines der größten Energieversorgungsunternehmen Europas, setzt sich auf bundespolitischer und europäischer Ebene gegen effektive Klimaschutzmaßnahmen ein und hat erfolgreich gesetzliche Regelungen und Richtlinien blockiert oder ausgehöhlt. Begleitet werden diese Bemühungen des Essener Konzerns von intensiven Greenwashing-Kampagnen, die RWE ein “grünes” Image geben sollen, obgleich RWE der größte CO2-Emittent Europas ist.
In guter Erinnerung dürfte noch der “Energieriese” sein, der im letzten Jahr vor Filmen für Kinder und Jugendliche durch die Kinos geisterte. von Fritz Schadow RWE, eines der größten Energieversorgungsunternehmen Europas, setzt sich auf bundespolitischer und europäischer Ebene gegen effektive Klimaschutzmaßnahmen ein und hat erfolgreich gesetzliche Regelungen und Richtlinien blockiert oder ausgehöhlt. Protests over German vote to keep nuclear energy. 28 October 2010Last updated at 17:05 The protest banner showed Mrs Merkel sharing a toast with the head of one of the nuclear plant operators Activists have unfurled a giant protest banner in Berlin as Germany's parliament voted to extend the life of nuclear plants.
Greenpeace demonstrators scaled the headquarters of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party to drape the banner down its glass facade. Others formed a human chain around the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. Inside, MPs voted through the energy bill by 308 votes to 289. The country's 17 nuclear plants are having their operating life extended by an average of 12 years. In 2000, the then Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, agreed to mothball the last power plant by 2021, in response to public concerns over safety. Mrs Merkel intends to channel some of the billions of extra euros the plant operators will earn into solar and wind power. Court appeal Green MPs wore symbolic black. Should Goldman Sachs win the Finance Worst Lobbyist? | Worst EU Lobbying Awards. Guest Post by Kevin Meaney as part of a series of Opinions on which Worst-Lobbyist should Win.
Goldman Sachs and the various market trading associations that it supports lobbied the US Government and its regulators to relax regulations that restricted the ability of financiers to speculate on food. Regulations that for many countries had been in place since the 1930s that had been implemented in response to the destructive speculation in the food commodities markets that occurred in the 1920 and 1930s. Guest Post by Kevin Meaney as part of a series of Opinions on which Worst-Lobbyist should Win. Goldman Sachs and the various market trading associations that it supports lobbied the US Government and its regulators to relax regulations that restricted the ability of financiers to speculate on food. Commission sets out its plans for a new EU framework for crisis management in the financial sector.
Brussels, 20 October 2010 Commission sets out its plans for a new EU framework for crisis management in the financial sector The crisis demonstrated clearly that when problems hit one bank, they can spread to the whole financial sector and well beyond the borders of any one country. It also showed that systems were not in place to manage financial institutions facing difficulties. Very few rules exist which determine which actions should be taken by authorities in the case of a banking crisis. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: “First, we must try to avoid a financial crisis in the future. The Commission's Communication sets out the main elements that will be part of the Commission's legislative proposals next year, and is the result of extensive consultations over the past months (see IP/09/1549 ). No entity should be "too big too fail". Background: See also MEMO/10/506.
More information is available at: The Bad, the Ugly and the Worst - Radio Mundo Real. On Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, a new edition of the Worst EU Lobbying Awards was launched. This year they aim to expose the negative role of several companies which have blocked the efforts for effective European actions in terms of finance and climate change. With a press conference and an activity outside the European Commission in Brussels, the organizers opened the Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010. People can vote on www.worstlobby.eu and the voting will close on November 25th, 2010.
This year there are two categories: climate and finance. The Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2010 are jointly organized by Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, LobbyControl and Spinwatch. Photo: Worst EU Lobbying Awards. BusinessEurope's legitimacy called into question. 5zmfnqkj - Uploaded by ClimActNet_EU.