Fancy lobby receptions don't work, say Brussels politicians

If you are a lobbyist in Brussels and you want to win over a public official to your client's point of view on a new law, whatever you do, do not invite the politician to a fancy evening reception.

It just won't work.

Such is the counter-intuitive and startling conclusion of a survey of European political elites on what sort of lobbying works and what does not.

Just two percent of decision-makers in the European institutions think that going to an after-work gathering with ...