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Whose Views Count? Business influence and the European Commission’s High Level Groups

08/02/2012

Corporate power Corporate accountability Corporate capture
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08/02/12
whose views count

This report fouses on the expert groups known as high level groups which advise the European Commission on controverial issues like climate change, chemcials and food. It finds that groups are unbalanced and undemocratic, and geared towards improving the competitiveness of European business at the expense of h is other public interests.

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