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Please do tell how lobbying without bribery is supposed to operate.
by dachworker 2y ago
Please do tell how lobbying without bribery is supposed to operate.
- amarcheschi 2y agoI do not know if it's a joke that i'm too european to understand or you're serious, but at least in europe there are some rules regarding lobby and transparency[1]. Bribes are of course something that doesn't follow the rules and thus are not lobbying. [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/transparency/lobby-groups https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/transparen...
- dachworker 2y agoI am also European and your way of thinking is completely alien to me.
- pferde 2y ago[flagged]
- ahartmetz 2y agoSame way as advertising, just much more personal. There are ways to change people's opinions without paying them.
- jampekka 2y agoBribery becomes lobbying when bribery is legalized. Also especially enforcement depends on who does the favors for the reps and officials.
- 2thumbsup 2y agoPlenty of companies have Public Affairs departments that work essentially as lobbyist, but no bribery neither to the MEP nor the Political Party is involved. Many lobbyists work "simply" by producing reports and collecting data that works in favor or their proposals, publishing them to opinion pieces in newspapers etc.
- gadders 2y agoThere is no explicit bribery, but there are plenty of examples where a government bureaucrat leaves to join a company they were "regulating" on a fat pay cheque. The EU is not unique in this though.
- dmos62 2y agoWithout judgment: I've started noticing how a different culture cannot imagine some phenomenon (e.g. some problem) not occuring in another culture. It's leading me to question what things I consider as universal constant that aren't.