Yes: I am from EU and know that lobbyism works. I participated in a lobbyism against EU wide software patents some years before. Serious lobbying works in the

Yes: I am from EU and know that lobbyism works. I participated in a lobbyism against EU wide software patents some years before. Serious lobbying works in the sense that you contact EU people and tell them your complaints with solid facts in a respectful way. Then they get serious and pay attention to you. Without the massive lobbying of many small and medium sized companies and freelancers against Software patents the EU would have invented them already years before.