Consumer Choice Center · In the media
When public money funds the NGOs that lobby the institutions handing out that money, who is really speaking for citizens? Here is how outlets across Europe are covering our work on circular lobbying.
Read the coverageCircular lobbying: EU institutions fund NGOs that then lobby those same institutions, creating the illusion of public support for pre-set agendas.
The Consumer Choice Center has long criticized the European Union, and governments elsewhere, for funding advocacy groups that then lobby the very institutions paying them. Taxpayers foot the bill, and policymakers end up hearing their own talking points echoed back as “civil society.”
A recent report on circular lobbying in the EU confirms what we have argued all along. Below is a selection of independent media coverage of it from across Europe, followed by our own writing on the same problem in Canada.
Independent media coverage, collected by CCC. These articles were not written by CCC.
Independent media coverage, collected by CCC. These articles were not written by CCC.
Our own work on circular lobbying in Canada, where federal funds flow to groups that lobby Ottawa.
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