I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
A series of posts on good practice in lobbying and campaigning
I learned something useful when I was young in Brussels. What people think the law says may not be what it says. When I was working on the adoption of the first WEEE Directive, a question came up on the meaning of “put on the market”. There were differences of opinion on what the term … Read more
Some politicians and journalists seem to be surprised about some of the contents of EU laws that they adopted in the last few years. Here are some radically practical ideas to stop poor laws being tabled. A good proposal takes time to gestate. As a rule of thumb, my guesstimate is around 18 months. … Read more
I’m just updating some chapters for Alan Hardacre’s “How to Work With the EU Institutions”. The update is made easier by being able to draw on a package of checklists and case studies of the everyday procedures an EU lobbyist deals with. What strikes me is that most of the procedures lobbyists work on repeat … Read more
When you are working to bring about a policy change you’ll need different skills sets at different times of the getting the law/policy you want. You’ll also need patience, persistence, and a long time horizon. It takes between 10-15 years from the conception of an idea to it being taken up in law and being … Read more