ENERGY LOBBYING IS BIG BUSINESS AT THE EUROPEAN UNION
August 1st, 2009
BY DAVID HAWORTH and KEITH NUTHALL
IT is an important symbol of the changing focus of the European Union (EU) that the EU's energy lobby is today regarded as an equal, if not more important than, the once feared agriculture lobby in Brussels.
Even though 40% of the EU budget is still spent on agriculture, free market reforms have clipped the influence of food groups at the EU, clearing the way for energy, whose importance as an international and strategic issue becomes ever more obvious.
When we talk about the energy lobby, we refer to an amorphous and large ...
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