Worst EU Lobbying candidates

Nominated for supporting the spread of war propaganda in the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia.

Gplus and Aspect Consulting, acting for Russia and Georgia respectively, attempted to distort the public’s perception of the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia by putting out misleading and deceptive information about the situation on the ground.

Nominated for hiding the involvement of big pharma corporations in their campaigns.

Vote for the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines who failed to reveal their true motives and the industry funding behind their “public interest” campaign to remove counterfeit and sub-standard medicines from the supply chain.

Nominated for its deceptive lobbying campaign to avoid CO₂ reduction obligations in the aviation sector.

IATA actively lobbied in Europe to persuade MEPs and Commissioners that aviation was not a significant source of global warming greenhouse gas emissions, and that it should not therefore be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme – while simultaneously threatening that the entire industry in Europe would face disastrous consequences if aviation was made to pay.

Nominated for their misleading campaigns to promote agrofuels as green.

Vote for the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), Brazilian sugar barons (UNICA) and energy company Abengoa Bioenergy who have all used misleading information in their European lobby campaigns to try and persuade the European Parliament, Commissioners and member states that agrofuels are sustainable.

Nominated for abusing their location and lobbying from inside Parliament offices.

The European Business and Parliament Scheme continues to take advantage of prime office space inside the European Parliament, despite requests to leave, allowing it to continue to “inform economic policy and legislation” on behalf of its corporate members.