Reshaping European Lobbying

The book explains via recent cases why EU lobbying has changed radically since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty and how this impacts the EU decision-making process in the proposal, adoption and implementation phases.

EU lobbying is becoming more complex, more opaque, more ad hoc and more legal. Every file has its own ‘institutional setting’. The Community method is being replaced by an intergovernmental approach. Most decisions are taken behind closed doors, with lobbyists excluded.

For almost 40 years, Daniel Guéguen has been deeply engaged in European affairs. Secretary-General of the European sugar lobby, then head of COPA-COGECA – the lobby for European farmers’ trade unions – he founded CLAN Public Affairs in 1996 and then the European Training Institute (ETI). In 2009, he ceded ETI to ESL Group& Network before establishing, with Vicky Marissen, a new consultancy specialised in secondary legislation: PACT European Affairs.

A Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Daniel is a prolific author with a number of important titles to his name: the “Practical Guide to the Community Labyrinth”, translated into 20 languages, “L’Europe à contre-sens”, “The Euro: Europe’s Construction or Destruction?”, “European Lobbying” and “Comitology: Hijacking European Power?”. Daniel’s books are all written in the same spirit: pedagogical, pro-European and forward-looking.