Sunday, 2 August 2009

Back

I am back, and comments for this blog are switched on again.

Yet, I am still quite busy, so I might not write something until the middle of the week. If I write something "substantial" before, it'll rather be on Twitter than here.

Anything I should write about when I'll have time?
posted by Julien Frisch at 20:27
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2 comments:

unregistered advisor said...

I'd be very interested to hear your unbiased opinion about the REAL need for a lobbyist register.. especially a voluntary one, and more specifically what the point if of "financial disclosure". THe whole issue between Friend of the Earth and CEFIC is laughable....

3 August 2009 at 22:22
Julien Frisch said...

My unbiased opinion (which sounds like a nice oxymoron to me :-) ) is that a voluntary register is a nice little toy, not more and not less.

I think that there should be a mandatory register - publicly available and including financial data - for any lobbyist who wants to interact with an EU institution and its officials. Officials should then refrain from interacting with any non-registered lobbyist.

I see this unchecked voluntary register more as a test range, a possibility to exert some public pressure for transparency. Its real sense remains still rather unclear to me.

3 August 2009 at 23:27

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