Good Practice

A common challenge you’ll face as a lobbyist is when your client rejects your suggested way forward. For me, with a medical bent, this is when your diagnosis of the problem and treatment options are rejected. Don’t worry. This is common for many experts. I remember when I received cancer treatment. Some patients rejected the … Read more

If you are new to lobbying in general and chemical lobbying in particular, here are a series of practical posts that may be useful. Some of the posts need updating.  The reference to the legislative procedure may have shifted from RPS to delegated act and the votes changed after the UK left.   Chemical lobbying … Read more

Just because you think something is “politically sensitive” does not mean it is so. If an initiative is politically sensitive, it deserves some extra scrutiny during adoption in the Commission, and most likely from the Council and the EP.  Just because an issue is your life’s work, commercially vital to you, or the subject of … Read more

I’ve come across a view that is alien to me: the best way to show your opposition to a proposal is to do so in public and aggressively. I call it the Ian Paisley School of lobbying.   I presume a more forthright approach, like the New York Politician below, is expected.   This approach … Read more