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Worst Lobbying candidatesViscount Étienne Davignon
Nominated for advising EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel about African development issues, even though he sits on the board of directors for Suez – a transnational corporation looking to expand its energy and water business into Africa.
read more… EPACA, the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association
Nominated for its high-profile counter-campaign against the European Commission’s plans for a lobby transparency register.
read more… BMW, Daimler and Porsche
Nominated for their full-scale lobbying offensive to water-down and delay the EU mandatory targets for CO2 emissions from cars, impeding progress to combat climate change.
read more… Repsol
Nominated for distorting the EU’s research agenda on agrofuels; ensuring that outcomes fit narrow commercial interests, at the expense of genuine measures to combat climate change.
read more… Cabinet Stewart
Nominated for running the International Council for Capital Formation – a uniquely fake European think-tank that serves as a front group for US-based opponents of the Kyoto Protocol.
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