I
feel the need to enlighten the public on the way the European Union
functions, or rather malfunctions. For most readers, this could come as a
great shock : how can one imagine that the legislator no longer
legislates and that he delegates his legislative power to obscure
cenacles called “trilogues” ?
Today,
being a lobbyist is considered to be bad. A defender of business, of
multinationals, of capitalism, ... and by extension of pesticides,
intensive agriculture and junk food. That is the image ! The aim of this
book is not to correct this image, but to provide elements of
appreciation and to give a form of objectivity to the debate.
Daniel Guéguen is the longest serving EU lobbyist.
He is the former head of the European sugar lobby and then of the
European farmers unions. Now a consultant, he is at the heart of the
lobbying issues that make the news. Longtime professor in the United
States, notably at Georgetown and Harvard. Now at the College of Europe.
Multi-author, editorialist, blogger, Daniel Guéguen remains a convinced
pro-European, but fiercely critical of an opaque, bureaucratic and, to
put it bluntly, anti-democratic system.
