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Transparency campaigners want lobbyists to come out of the shadows (Photo: EUobserver)

One-year-old lobby registry 'as useful as a phonebook without numbers'

A year after the birth of the European Commission's much-trumpeted register of Brussels lobbyists, a review of the process by transparency campaigner has found that less than a quarter of lobbyists in the EU capital have actually signed up.

The commission launched the register last June. As of 25 May this year, 1488 organisations had signed up. The EU executive has repeatedly cheered the 'success' of the registry, but a detailed analysis by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Eth...

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Transparency campaigners want lobbyists to come out of the shadows (Photo: EUobserver)

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