Worst EU Lobbying Awards 2008

The idea behind the Worst EU Lobbying Awards is to discourage controversial lobbying practices by exposing them to the public. Thousands of corporate lobbyists roam the corridors of power in Brussels. Operating out of the spotlight, many of them do not hesitate to employ improper methods, like pretending to be concerned environmentalists, buying science, secretly funding anarcho-capitalist think-tanks, or securing privileged access to EU decision-makers

(...) Last year, German car makers BMW, Daimler and Porsche won the ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ Award 2007 for their misleading and scaremongering lobby campaign to water down EU curbs on CO2-emissions from passenger cars. The German Atomic Forum received the special ‘Worst EU Greenwash’ Award for its campaign “Germany’s unloved climate protectionists”, which tried to greenwash the image of nuclear power plants.

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