The last in a continuing series of backgrounders from Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office on the Copenhagen Summit. It begins with what many might consider an understatement:
The Copenhagen Climate Conference did not meet most expectations. After two weeks of negotiations, world leaders delivered a three-page non-binding political declaration (‘Copenhagen Accord’) that fails to provide a successor to [...]
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Cophenhangen: The Final Analysis
Meet the European Commission’s New Leadership
Last week, we saw the nomination of the men and women who will head the European Union’s Executive arm – the European Commission – for the next five years under European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. This team will now face relevant committees in the European Parliament early in the New Year for questions before [...]
More Background on Copenhagen Climate Conference
Heres’s the third in a series of background briefs from Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office on issues that delegates from around the world will grapple with at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December. This brief focuses on reform of the Clean Development Mechanism, which will be negotiated in Copenhagen.
“The CDM is one of three flexible market-based mechanisms [...]
Financing Climate Change Remedies
A couple of weeks ago, we posted here a great overview by Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office of the December Copenhagen Climate Conference. Comes now a second installment in the Brussels Copenhagen series: a concise backgrounder on this ever-important question: how will the world pay for all the recommendations that will be under consideration at the Conference.
Handy Copenhagen Conference Guide
As it is said, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has come to the rescue with a concise guide to what observers can expect from the Copenhagen Climate Conference, scheduled for December 2009. The overall objective of this much-anticipated event is for participating countries to draw up a new [...]
European Parliament Election Results
Fleishman-Hillard’s Brussels office has issued its own scorecard of the just-held European Parliament elections and their implications for business. The big take away:
Turnout (43%) was lower than 2004 (45%)
The European People’s Party (EPP), Centre-right Christian democrats, were the clear winners of the elections
The Centre-left Party of European Socialists (PES) suffered devastating losses for (especially in [...]
How Members of the European Union Parliament Use the Internet
The Internet is generally having a positive effect on the discourse between citizens and Congress, or at least that is what a large majority of congressional staff reporting from the U.S. believe: “79% percent believe the Internet has made it easier for citizens to become involved in public policy; 55% believe it has increased public [...]
The Not-So-Fast-Track Stimulus
Only a few weeks ago, the plan was that the Obama transition team would send its proposals for an economic stimulus to Congress around about, well, now. That would then give both houses about a fortnight or less to pass it in time for the new President to sign the legislation on or shortly following [...]
Does Brussels Matter?
Get a Life – a Second Life!
So there I was, on the Eurostar, making my way back to Brussels after a short break in my hometown, London, when I was spotted by an acquaintance, now working at the Association of British Insurers (ABI). You might understand my reluctance to engage in conversation given that it is over two hours from London [...]
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