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MEPs to vote on tougher rules for lobbyists but there is a split over need for a mandatory register. Members of the European Parliament are to vote next week on whether to...

The European Commission and the European Parliament have revived work on improving transparency. We look at changes afoot for the registers of lobbyists, access to documents...

Survey identifies a large difference between the number of lobbying groups listed on voluntary and mandatory registers. Some 60% of lobby groups in Brussels have still not...

Communicating with the EU institutions: interest groups and the transparency debate Greater transparency is needed about how the European Union institutions are lobbied,...

Hostility to lobbying is commonplace and widespread, but it is an integral part of the political landscape. Lobbying has become something of a dirty word. The European...

The Obama administration has ‘demonised' lobbying in the US, but that hasn't stopped the industry continuing to grow. In the United States, perhaps no business finds...

The trade in information and influence carries on. Europe may be in recession, but the business of government carries on. In turn, the trade in information and influence...

The Commission's voluntary register of lobbyists is a year old. While the numbers registering have defied the pessimists' prediction, there is still plenty of work to do....

Lobby group suspended for eight weeks after failing to declare lobbying costs in line with Commission rules. The European Commission has suspended the main chemicals...

The US's failure to control the influence of big business on policy is not an argument against the EU tightening its own lobbying rules. The European Parliament elections...

Julien Schiettecatte hopes to improve the profile of his profession and stimulate debate. Lobbyists have been much blamed in recent years for the public's loss of trust in...

Small number of firms signed up to register; calls to introduce a common code of conduct. The European Commission's register of lobbyists has been up and running for six...

The reluctance of public affairs consultants to sign up to the Commission's voluntary register of lobbyists keeps alive a possible mandatory system. At the heart of the...

Bid to set up ‘one-stop shop' for lobbyists; Siim Kallas to join working group on common code. The EU's three main institutions are starting work on a ‘one-stop shop'...

Difficulties collecting clients' financial data suggest registrations likely to pick up only after the summer. Few lobbying organisations are expected to sign up to the...

Lobbyists will have to declare to the nearest €50,000 how much money they receive from individual clients, under rules drawn up by the European Commission for a register...

Siim Kallas, the European commissioner for administrative affairs and anti-fraud, is confident that his initiative to boost transparency on the Brussels lobbying scene will...

Two MEPs discuss EU lobbying.

Despite protestations from consultancies and criticism from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it is now almost certain that the transparency initiative launched by...

“At the end of the 1980s,” says José Lalloum, “it was a strange wish for a Frenchman to become a lobbyist. It was not seen as a profession.” In the stuffy,...