{"id":1984,"date":"2015-04-20T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:23","slug":"lobbying-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/04\/20\/lobbying-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released this week by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/news\/feature\/europe_a_playground_for_special_interests_amid_lax_lobbying_rules\">Transparency International<\/a> a\u00a0 report on the state of regulation of political lobbying in 19 European nations and by the EU. Shockingly it found that only <strong>31%<\/strong> showed quality in their promotion of transparency, integrity and equality of access in lobbying. Download the full report and its definitions of methodology from the website.<\/p>\n<p>For data relating specifically to the UK try:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org.uk\/our-work\/publications\/15-publications\/1208-liftthelid\">Transparency International Uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicaffairscouncil.org.uk\/\">UK Public Affairs Council (UKPAC)<\/a> promotes effective self-regulation and maintains and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicaffairscouncil.org.uk\/en\/search-the-register\/about-the-register.cfm\">online register<\/a> of both organisations and individuals engaged in\/offering lobbying services<\/li>\n<li>Spinwatch monitors news\u00a0 reports on issues lobbying and publishes<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinwatch.org\/index.php\/issues\/lobbying\"> research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released this week by Transparency International a\u00a0 report on the state of regulation of political lobbying in 19 European nations and by the EU. Shockingly it found that only 31% showed quality in their promotion of transparency, integrity and equality of access in lobbying. Download the full report and its definitions of methodology from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[50,215,242],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-european-union","tag-lobbying","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}