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Worst EU Lobbying Award 2007 — Winner and Runners-UpTotal number of votes: 6557 1. BMW, Daimler and Porsche
2109 votes (32%)
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… 2. EPACA, the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association
1580 votes (24%)
Nominated for its high-profile counter-campaign against the European Commission’s plans for a lobby transparency register. read more… 3. Cabinet Stewart
1037 votes (16%)
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. read more… 4. Viscount Étienne Davignon
956 votes (15%)
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… 5. Repsol
875 votes (13%) 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… |
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