[SWLUG] EU Lobby Awards

[Jim Killock]

http://www.eulobbyaward.org/

great little site, well worth a vote, on patents or other possibly 
worse stuff ...

‘Worst EU Lobbying’
Award 2005
Nominees
Below you find short explanations about each nominee, with links to 
more extensive information. Every voter can vote for just one nominee.
VOTES
87%
6805
Campaign for Creativity
Nominated as a fake NGO brilliantly disguising corporate demands as 
grassroots concerns


3%
306
ExxonMobil
Nominated for its generous funding of think tanks that deny EU action 
against climate change is needed.



2%
182
European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE)
Nominated for determination to bash EU climate legislation


1%
142
European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
Nominated for being an effective ‘Crooked Enemy oF Informed Consumers’


1%
104
European Patients’ Forum
Nominated for representing pharmaceutical corporations rather than 
patients.


1%
94
New Defence Agenda
Nominated for being the arms industry's 'weapon of mass disinformation'


0%
59
SEAP and EPACA – the lobbyists’ lobbies
Nominated for their work to keep the public in the dark


0%
53
European Services Forum
Nominated for successfully using its privileged access to EU trade 
officials to determine the EU’s trade agenda


0%
41
Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF) and PR firm 
Burson-Marsteller
Nominated for fighting fire with smokescreens


0%
24
Houston Consulting Europe
Nominated for arranging marriage between big banking lobbyists and 
Members of the European Parliament
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