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Lobbying and advocacy
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Big energy lobbying: How BP undermined EU support for renewables
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Malta: ‘Dalligate: probe into witness is reopened’
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Smoking Bans: The Czechs resist
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Agriculture: EU abuzz over missing bees
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Data protection: A platform to flush out the lobbies
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Interview: Friedrich Moser: “There’s a democratic deficit in the EU”
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European Commision: Dalligate: MEPs call for an inquest
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European Commission: Big Tobacco at home in Brussels
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Euromyths (2/10): Lobbies, not always a bad thing
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Financial regulation: Finance Watch - a lobby to break the lobbies
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Health: Europe’s food safety in hands of lobbies
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European Institutions: The wild world of lobbyists
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Corruption: Another MEP gets caught redhanded
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European Parliament: Three MEPs caught in lobby sting
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Germany: A grand guignol republic
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Germany: Where big pharma is king
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European Commission: Questions over ex-commissioners in clover
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European Union: When ex-commissioners land lobby jobs
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Institutions: Is Brussels in the clutches of lobbies?
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European Parliament: SOS against financial lobby
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European Union: Lobbyists attack lobby watchdog
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Environnement: Cold shoulder for A/C energy campaigners
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Czech Republic: Ecology – sure, but to a point
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United Kingdom: Making prisons “comfortable” in Nigeria
Presseurop The Daily Mail
BP was part of oil and gas lobby that successfully undermined EU renewable energy targets and subsidies in favour of gas as a climate fix in 2011, reveal some documents seen by The Guardian. 
With startling speed and success, Europe has vigorously lobbied to ban smoking from public areas. The Czech Republic comes across as the last obdurate defender of the freedom to inhale nicotine – and, true to its specific concept of liberalism, is trying to muster all its might to torpedo every EU effort. 
A category of insecticides, widely used throughout the agricultural sector, may be responsible for Europe’s high level of bee mortality. The European Commission wants to ban their use, but manufacturers are throwing a spanner in the works. 
The Brussels Business, to be broadcasted on Arte on 12 February, explores the shadowy universe of the powerful lobby groups at work behind the […] 
The resignation of Health Commissioner John Dalli last month lifted the lid on the influence of the tobacco industry in the European Commission. That influence has even penetrated OLAF, Europe's anti-fraud office, writes Der Spiegel. 
Lobbies hovering around Brussels are legion but what is their role? And do they win every time? In the second part of its investigation into euromyths, the Groene Amsterdammer analyses the power relations between EU institutions and pressure groups. 
The Brussels financial lobby seems all powerful. Since the Lehman crash of 2008, it has stalled all attempts to reform the financial market in Europe. But things should be changing now: Europe has hired an anti-lobby. 
The European Food Inspection Authority decides what ends up on our plates. But their links with industry are many – and consumers are paying for it. 
The recent scandal surrounding MEPs who allowed themselves to be corrupted by journalists posing as lobbyists has lifted the veil on the often ambiguous relationships between representatives of interest groups and European institutions.