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Article: EU: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SEEKS TO CURB SECRET LOBBYING EFFORTS.
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- May 12, 2008
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By David Cronin
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The cozy relationship between some corporate lobbyists and the Brussels bureaucracy was illustrated in the past few weeks as several members of the European Parliament prepared to visit Peru.
Vidal Quadras Roca, the assembly's vice-president, contacted a fellow member of the European Parliament who was organizing the trip to inform him that participants could see firsthand projects in Lima run by British Petroleum, the French private water firm Suez and the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefcentsnica. All these companies, it turns out, are represented by the International Association of ...