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Reactie op: “Piepjong lobbyregister Europese Commissie is de fase van kinderziektes nog niet door” – Han Dirk Hekking, Het Financieele Dagblad, 17 maart 2009
Think tank says boycott of register is ‘a matter of principle’
In an article on the European Commission’s lobby register, Dirk Jan Hekking, Brussels correspondent of Het Financieele Dagblad, notes that law firms and think tanks continue to boycott the register. Among the major Brussels-based think tanks only the European Policy Centre has registered.
In his article, Hekking quotes Matt Dann of the think tank Bruegel: “We object to the fact that the Commission places us in the same category as lobbyists. Our aim is to contribute to the quality of policies by delivering research, debate and analysis based on facts. This is a matter of principle. We are not lobbyists, so we will not register in a lobby register”.