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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There s no question that the ARB is putting itself in a complex financial and administrative situation, after losing such powerful and influential members with their financial contributions and lobbying capabilities.

Along with others, Golubovska has been vigorously lobbying for amendments to some of Macedonia's more dubious legislation and speaking out publicly against human rights violations in the country for years.

Moreover, those who make decisions for institutional investors often have interests that discourage lobbying for stronger constraints on corporate insiders.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Lobbying means any individual or group that seeks to influence citizen representatives in order to get them to legislate laws in their interest.

(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.

A case in point is union lobbying against the US Colombia free trade agreement, ratification of which would greatly advance US Latin American relations.

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.

European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to strain it to the breaking point.

This allowed more than 40 European citizens, committed to transparency, to travel to Belgium in order to discover the framework of the European Institutions, to meet with European officials and to reflect about problems generated by lobbying.

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.

Meanwhile, the US financial sector has been lobbying hard to free itself of regulations, so that it can return to its previous, disastrously carefree, ways.

In Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court has ordered parliamentarians to reveal their outside income often from lobbying activities on behalf of big business on the Internet.

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.