They're also doing a great job of lobbying the government.

Lobbying and Transparency

Its success depends on market demand, not political lobbying.

I can't say that I am a lobbying expert.

On the second panel, more focussed on the control of lobbying, the staff of the European Commissioners unanimously asserted to be satisfied with the lobbying register introduced a year ago in the EU.

Only such changes including lobbying reforms can restore effective governance.

In Costa Rica, the rice industry took the traditional route of lobbying for protection.

This reduces the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.

Certainly the US Congress was clueless its members were still busy lobbying for the government backed housing mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thereby digging the hole deeper.

Second, by removing decision making power from the national government that hosts an insolvent institution, this solution minimizes the potential distortions created by the lobbying power of the incumbent bankers.

A report from China.cn.org, an official Chinese government news portal, linked the closures to criticism from the Motion Picture Association of America, the lead lobbying group for the Hollywood film industry.

MADRID The American Israel Public Affairs Committee s lobbying power in the United States is undeniable.

This was partly due to lobbying by the scientific community on behalf of Oppenheimer.

Second, like the financial sector, the tech industry is enormously influential politically through contributions and lobbying.

This will expose the EGF to wasteful political posturing and lobbying by countries and sectors.

Backroom lobbying by powerful corporations now dominates policymaking negotiations, from which the public is excluded.

The party has poured several million dollars into lobbying in the US to present the opposition as pro Russian.

Their lobbying, which is carried out at the expense of their companies, is subsidized by their shareholders.

Vučić's administration had been lobbying other countries to vote against Kosovo's membership within the relevant UN bodies.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders. In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

But institutional investors usually do not provide a sufficient counter weight to lobbying by corporate insiders.

The Kremlin doesn t have a monopoly on these tactics, however, and businesses have used them as lobbying tools, as well.

Among the 1,200 Hong Kong Chief Executive Election Committee members, 689 elected Leung Chun ying to be the next city mayor on March 25 under the influence and active lobbying of the Liasion Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong.

This was disclosed on the website of the Foreign Agents Registration Act which lists American companies engaged in lobbying for foreign powers.

For example, legal scholar Cao Siyuan began writing on, lobbying for, and organizing conferences about constitutional reform.

For this reason, various organisations from all over Europe, amongst which are ALTER EU, Friends of the Earth Europe and Unlock Democracy, fight for the transparency in lobbying, and are trying to implement an obligatory lobbying register accesible to the public for controlling pressure groups in different countries.

For this reason, US diplomats are lobbying hard for the OSCE, and Kazakhstan in particular, to be given a fair chance.

The US has been lobbying China for some time for economic policy changes aimed at stimulating domestic demand and open markets.

The animal welfare movement, despite its broad public support, has been unable to compete in the arena of political lobbying and campaign donations.

The lack of transparency in lobbying is another element that actively affects both this link between the super powers as well as citizens.

It is a difficult subject to address, and doing so is impeded by lobbying efforts and incomplete information.

Indeed, it was the envy of many Westerners, who were fed up with self interested lobbying, pesky labor unions, and meddling politicians.

(So, too, did the tobacco companies spend vast sums on political lobbying and bogus science to deny the links between smoking and lung cancer.)

Corporate insiders are an especially powerful lobbying group because of their ability to use some of the resources of the companies under their control.

In contrast to corporate insiders, institutional investors cannot charge the costs of lobbying to the publicly traded companies whose investor protection is at stake.

Conceivably, over the longer term, China s successful campaign could now open the door to lobbying by other governments to include their currencies as well.

In the recent past, conservation was mainly about understanding the biology of endangered species, protecting and managing their habitats, and lobbying for new laws.

Uribe has spent weeks directly and personally lobbying key American legislators, and he is undoubtedly his own best advocate.

When did the people s government transform into the party s government?

Anybody who follows the WTO knows that rich countries get around this nuisance' democratic formality by lobbying behind the scenes to fix the agenda in advance.

The new government's aggressive lobbying before the summit was perceived both at home and abroad as a clear sign of its commitment to the EU cause.

The new government's aggressive lobbying before the summit was perceived both at home and abroad as a clear sign of its commitment to the EU cause.

Not the government.

The government response

But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent intensity of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.