EU Influence
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU.
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Von der Leyen and the dark horse lobby
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …
Taking on the euro-bots
HOWDY. Welcome to this week’s edition of EU Influence, where we heartily endorse this analogy about literature on lobbying and, ahem, football: We’d add one caveat, however: …
How to crash a party congress
HOWDY. We were a little grumpy writing parts of this week’s edition of EU Influence. Normally we actually kind of enjoy scrolling through LinkedIn, looking for happy …
Uber Files postmortem
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …
What Uber could teach Amazon’s banned lobbyists
HOWDY. Welcome to EU Influence, written by a former member of the Finnish embassy to Washington’s Diplomatic Sauna Society. Meetings consisted of hot, boozy, naked networking sessions. …
Von der Leyen’s Deutsch-dominant diary
HOWDY. Welcome to this week’s edition of EU Influence. We’re sending a note of courage to the Commission spokesperson’s service. Your jobs are going to be even …
When civil society resorts to fake news
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …
The sweet smell of sausage-making
HOWDY. Welcome to the latest edition of EU Influence, where your author usually prides herself on an old-fashioned objectivity that means keeping her own interests from clouding …
Stubbing out tobacco regs
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …
Capitals push for stronger ethics body
ETHICS BODY HOWDY. Welcome to this week’s EU Influence, where we’re diving right into the news. COUNCIL OF EU CALLS COMMISSION’S ETHICS BLUFF: No one saw this …
Kroes cleared in Uber Files investigation
HOWDY. The titans of industry and politics are in Davos. The MEPs are in Strasbourg. And yet this edition of EU Influence comes to you from Brussels. …
Polish power post-PiS
HOWDY. Welcome to this week’s EU Influence, where we’re overwhelmed by the bumper crop of new year promotions. We’re hoping those of you who lost your expat …
Boosting Washington’s foreign agents law
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …
Commission promises tobacco lobby probe
HOWDY. This edition of EU Influence comes to you from the Washington mothership of the POLITICO empire, where we’re doing some reporting on the O.G. FARA to …
Disharmony over Hungary and foreign lobbyists
HOWDY. Next week’s edition of EU Influence (the last for 2023) will come to you from Washington, D.C., so do get in touch if you’re reading from …
The siren call of the Parliament side hustle
HOWDY. Welcome to this week’s edition of EU Influence, where we are sending virtual courage to everyone slogging through the AI Act trilogues. Saturday will mark the …
Outside (and outsized) impact
HOWDY. We’ll start this week’s edition of EU Influence by congratulating two strangers on their excellent (justifiably paranoid) media hygiene. Two people were standing near the coffee …
Sustainable packaging’s filthy fight
Hello! Welcome to EU Influence. I’m Mari Eccles, standing in for the brilliant Sarah Wheaton. I’m an aviation reporter on the mobility team but from December will …
Getting woke on smoke
Howdy. Welcome to this week’s edition of EU Influence, where we are wondering if the EU branding brain who came up with the idea of marketing the …
Exposing the foreign influence ‘triangle’
A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By SARAH WHEATON Tips, tales, traumas to @swheaton or [email protected] | View in your browser …