And the winner is...

Se han hecho públicas las nominaciones al peor lobby europeo, su presentación no deja lugar a dudas: los nominados son aquellos que han desarrollado estrategias de relaciones públicas para lograr fines que los organizadores consideran contrarios al bien común, o de una forma poco ética.

Los nominados son:

* BMW, Daimler and Porsche for their full-scale lobbying offensive to water-down and delay the EU mandatory targets for CO2 emissions from cars;
* EU public affairs consultancy Cabinet Stewart for running the International Council of Capital Formation (ICCF) - this so-called ‘unique European think-tank’ is in fact a front group for US-based opponents of the Kyoto Protocol;
* Viscount Etienne Davignon, for advising EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel about African development issues, even though he sits on the board for Suez – a transnational corporation looking to expand its energy and water business into Africa;
* The European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA) for its high-profile counter-campaign against the European Commission’s plans for a lobby transparency register;
* Repsol for misshaping the EU's research agenda on agrofuels to fit narrow commercial interests, at the expense of genuine measures to combat climate change.

and the winner is.... (todavía está abierto el proceso de decisión)

Las buena noticia es que en buena lógica se admite la existencia de lobbys buenos, ¿por qué no crear el best lobby award?