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Brussels hosts hundreds of conferences every year, offering the roughly 25,000 lobbyists who orbit the EU institutions top-tier access to the officials who write laws for 450 million Europeans (Photo: Jakob Dalbjörn )

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How Brussels conferences exploit loophole in EU lobbying rules

Brussels conferences offer lobbyists informal access to EU officials with zero transparency — benefiting industry groups while civil society lacks comparable resources.

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Linda A. Thompson is a Brussels-freelance journalist specialising in EU policy, tech regulation, and legal activism. She has also covered the impact of EU regulatory decisions on law firms.

Brussels hosts hundreds of conferences every year, offering the roughly 25,000 lobbyists who orbit the EU institutions top-tier access to the officials who write laws for 450 million Europeans (Photo: Jakob Dalbjörn )

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Linda A. Thompson is a Brussels-freelance journalist specialising in EU policy, tech regulation, and legal activism. She has also covered the impact of EU regulatory decisions on law firms.

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