Article: EU: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SEEKS TO CURB SECRET LOBBYING EFFORTS

David Cronin
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-12-2008
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 Telefnica. All these
companies, it turns out, are represented by the International
Association of ...

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