lobbyism

It is not right that you should call this lobbyism.

I would also like to say that we do not regard lobbyism as something bad per se.

This simple proposal will also solve most problems that bias lobbyism.

There is still a strong coal lobbyism in Germany.

Without lobbyism, politicians' knowledge, facts and opinions with regard to all aspects of society would be far too limited.

Piratbyrån was an organization founded to oppose the lobbyism of the anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån.

Reepalu added on Danish television that the criticism against his statement were a product of pro-Israel lobbyism.

Another challenge within the water sector in Europe is privatisation and lobbyism in the water sector.

At the last meeting of the Conference of Presidents we became aware of organised lobbyism in our own House.

Danish newspapers have accused him of lobbyism and political agendas in his debunking of the various theories he has attacked.

"Everything that is hidden is concealed lobbyism," Mr. Thierse said, "and that is wrong."

The taxation came as a result of skilled lobbyism, carried out by breweries and producers of mineral water - and it worked as intended.

He was detained for 24 hours for allegations of lobbyism, instigation to false and incitement to the misdemeanor of money laundering.

(DA) Mr President, following today's vote on the lobbyists register, I think it is important to state that lobbyism is essentially a good thing.

It suggests both insiderness (K Street being the shorthand for Washington lobbyism in general) and outsiderness (there being no such place as J Street).

We have to take a stand against attempts to conceal what is effectively lobbyism, against the growing trend towards professional parliamentarians which is increasingly detracting from the function of democratic representation.

In the 1690s, he announced support of Johann Reinhold von Patkul's lobbyism against Swedish absolutist threats to Baltic noble privileges, while also working with the Swedish authorities in Estonia.

There is also a need for action, not because all lobbying is harmful, or because all lobbyists are evil, but because it is completely unacceptable that lobbyism has such a major influence without there being any binding rules in place on maximum openness in the area.

In Turkey, it is always problematic for a cemevi to get off the ground, due to strict state interference in religious matters, and cases of discrimination against the Alevis, which results in the founding of each cemevi acquiring political dimensions and necessitating case-by-case lobbyism.

Finally, I would ask the Commission to do three things: firstly, to commission a study on the traffic patterns of goods vehicles under 3.5 tonnes, for I live in hope of a different kind of lobbyism and of our being able to incorporate these categories, too, in the directive at a later date.

Following Max Weber, Hallin and Mancini use the term rational-legal authority in its meaning as a form of governance whose main influence is maintained through formal and universalistic rules of procedure, i.e. an independent and autonomous administrative apparatus not affected by political and economic interests or lobbyism.