US corporations are the biggest spenders in Brussels lobbying
A new tool exposing lobby labyrinth
“LobbyFacts.eu is a new online tool based on the EU lobby register which allows the data to be sorted, compared, ranked and analysed in ways not possible in the current register. LobbyFacts allows journalists, activists, academics and others to see the top spenders on lobbying and who has the most parliamentary passes. The LobbyFacts search engine is also significantly faster than the official register website.”
“Other ranking lists provided by LobbyFacts include the numbers of lobby staff employed by different organisations and how many European Parliament access passes they hold.”
“Statistics which LobbyFacts' data-crunching has revealed for the first time include:
- Lobby consultancies hold over 670 Parliament access passes
- US corporations are the biggest spenders in Brussels lobbying
- Five lobby firms have 130 lobbyists accredited to the European Parliament between them”
“... LobbyFacts reveals that there are more US-based lobby organisations in the EU register than organisations from Poland, Austria, Sweden or Denmark.”
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