19/03/12
This guide has been written to help Friends of the Earth groups, and other groups working on environmental and social issues, to understand how and when to engage with EU institutions, in order to make campaigning activities more effective.
Understanding how institutions of the European Union work, and which powers they have, is a first step to understanding how you can influence EU decision making. This guide looks at how the main EU institutions function, and the routes that civil society groups have to influence them, as well as looking at the realities of advocacy work in the “Brussels Bubble”- a scene dominated by corporate influence, and informal contacts.
