Archive
Year: 2011
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Political Pressures Build Over CAP Reform
January 24, 2011
The political pressures are building as we approach the next reform of Europe’s common agricultural policy. The European Commission will finalise its detailed proposals for the future of the CAP in the summer, with a view to decisions in 2012. Of course the budget issue already looms large, with President Sarkozy insisting that the EU farm budget should be sustained at least at current levels beyond 2013, while the British (and probably Germany) will demand...
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Coming soon: Fleishman-Hillard’s European Parliament Digital Trends Survey
January 21, 2011
A short note to announce that we will be launching our second study on MEPs’ use of the Internet on January 25th. In the study, we explore their use of digital channels to communicate with constituents and others, as well as how they use the web and other channels to inform themselves on policy matters. After the success of our previous study in 2009, we wanted to repeat the exercise to see how much the...
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Policy Makers Struggle to Escape the Tide
January 8, 2011
“But always at my back I hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near” wrote the English poet Andrew Marvell in the seventeenth century, when trying to persuade his coy mistress to be more accommodating. Marvell’s lines sum up rather well the sense of foreboding in the European Union at the start of 2011 as policy makers struggle to keep ahead of the tide of a deeper euro crisis. Will economic growth across the EU be...