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There are more lobbyists of foreign corporations (american ones) in Brussels than European ones. We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send th

by zoobab 3y ago

There are more lobbyists of foreign corporations (american ones) in Brussels than European ones. We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country.

ur-whale 3y ago
>We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country. Another way to look at it is that European companies are basically asleep at the wheel and should wake up and realize the nature of the game they're playing at before they get eaten alive. Might as well try an pass a law to get them to wake up and realize the world they operate in.
- thiago_fm 3y ago
  Most European companies doesn't have that huge international revenue that american companies have to afford it. Dollars are plenty, American companies keep using that advantage to get shit done here in the EU.
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- the8472 3y ago
  If the game leads to negative-sum outcomes it is the game that needs to be fixed, not the players.
  - datadrivenangel 3y ago
    If we started fixing lobbyists (in the pet sense of the term), we would probably get better results even if the game stayed the same.
- dns_snek 3y ago
  While we appreciate that the US operates on nightly/"alpha" releases of (often damaging) policies, laws, and so-called "innovations", we tend to prefer LTS releases in the EU. Thanks for your service. I can't possibly imagine what good Amazon's lobbying could do for our society, or any other corporate-sponsored lobbying, for that matter. I agree with the parent poster.
hef19898 3y ago
Remove "foreign" from your proposal, and I am all for it. But yeah, it is a start either way!
nonethewiser 3y ago
How many large corporations capable of lobbying are there in Europe, and how many in the US? I looked and its hard to find definitive information on numbers of corporations. But I wouldnt be surprised if the US has more. Which would make the idea that there are more American lobbyists exactly what you should expect.
- Jensson 3y ago
  You don't have to be large to do it, lobbying isn't expensive.
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by zoobab 3y ago

There are more lobbyists of foreign corporations (american ones) in Brussels than European ones. We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country.

ur-whale 3y ago

>We should pass a "European Foreign Lobbyists Act", and send them back to their own country. Another way to look at it is that European companies are basically asleep at the wheel and should wake up and realize the nature of the game they're playing at before they get eaten alive. Might as well try an pass a law to get them to wake up and realize the world they operate in.

thiago_fm 3y ago
Most European companies doesn't have that huge international revenue that american companies have to afford it. Dollars are plenty, American companies keep using that advantage to get shit done here in the EU.
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the8472 3y ago
If the game leads to negative-sum outcomes it is the game that needs to be fixed, not the players.
- datadrivenangel 3y ago
  If we started fixing lobbyists (in the pet sense of the term), we would probably get better results even if the game stayed the same.
dns_snek 3y ago
While we appreciate that the US operates on nightly/"alpha" releases of (often damaging) policies, laws, and so-called "innovations", we tend to prefer LTS releases in the EU. Thanks for your service. I can't possibly imagine what good Amazon's lobbying could do for our society, or any other corporate-sponsored lobbying, for that matter. I agree with the parent poster.

hef19898 3y ago

Remove "foreign" from your proposal, and I am all for it. But yeah, it is a start either way!

nonethewiser 3y ago

How many large corporations capable of lobbying are there in Europe, and how many in the US? I looked and its hard to find definitive information on numbers of corporations. But I wouldnt be surprised if the US has more. Which would make the idea that there are more American lobbyists exactly what you should expect.

Jensson 3y ago
You don't have to be large to do it, lobbying isn't expensive.

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