I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I’m sometimes asked how to successfully influence the outcome of decisions/votes/proposals at the EU level. This is my model. It draws on working with organisations that have a network in most EU national capitals,e.g. WWF. It’s been tried and tested for over 30 years. It is based on lessons learned over 30 years … Read more
One day I hope an academic in Europe replicates John W Kingdon’s ‘Agenda, Alternatives and Public Policies‘. I stumbled on this book back in 1999 in Boalt Hall Law School. It opened my mind. Here was an academic who wrote clearly, and understood how public policy and decisions really were made. It made a lot … Read more
A constant gripe from lobbyists is that officials and politicians don’t listen to my interests, nor understand me. This is the same refrain if you work for an NGO or industry. Yet, there are a few who walk amongst you who don’t have that issue. Officials and politicians ask for their input and often co-opt … Read more
I guestimate that the average position paper consumes between 100 t0 200 hours to prepare and get signed off. Committee drafting and signing off – the preferred mechanism for preparing position papers – is nothing but time-consuming. As a rule of thumb, that means many position papers cost between €15K to €30K to get the … Read more