Archive
Year: 2012
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Fleishman-Hillard Named Global Public Affairs Agency of Year
October 1, 2012
Fleishman-Hillard has been named 2012 Global “Public Affairs Agency of the Year” by The Holmes Report. The influential industry publication recognizes the company for its strong presence at the EU level, praising FH Brussels' Caroline Wunnerlich for establishing "the most consistently impressive of the giant multinational agencies operating in the Brussels public affairs market". The award citation notes that the Brussels office has built on its traditional strengths of offering EU government relations and public affairs to develop...
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A refreshingly honest discussion on European defence
September 28, 2012
Fleishman-Hillard hosted a riveting roundtable on the outlook for defence in Europe this week. Moderated by FH Senior Vice President and Partner Dan Baxter, the discussion was led by two distinguished speakers: former European Commission Vice President and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry Guenther Verheugen, also a member of Fleishman-Hillard’s International Advisory Board, and General Sir Rupert Smith, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR). No discussion on the future of European defence could take...
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the EU’s chemicals legislation
September 28, 2012
It has been said, admittedly by me, that the REACH Regulation (EU chemicals law) is a lot like the Airbus A-380. The first time you saw it you stood in amazement at the sheer size of the thing and thought to yourself that there’s no way on God’s earth that it was going to fly. It’s all too big. It’s all too complex. But fly it does. And while it doesn’t get there any quicker...
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Can Europe Bounce Back from Defence Cuts?
September 19, 2012
On 25 September 2012 the Fleishman-Hillard Brussels defence team hosts a roundtable on "The Defence Outlook - 2012 and Beyond. Can Europe bounce back from defence cuts?" With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, supporters of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) had great hopes that the moment had come for European defence. Instead, the financial crisis and severe budget cuts both in Europe and the US have left the transatlantic defence...
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FH Undergrad Interns – Introducing the Sixth Generation
September 17, 2012
Back in 2005/2006 I got annoyed with hiring highly competent people with several degrees as interns, most of whom really wanted a job not an internship (if you're in that boat read this). In a spasm of proactivity I went about setting up our lovely undergraduate internship programme together with my alma mater, the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. The idea being that we got keen and intelligent interns for an entire academic year (long...
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What do you see in the clouds? 2012 State of the Union
September 14, 2012
Earlier this week saw President Barroso's State of the Union address down in Strasbourg. Excitement clearly peaked in our office (if not the rest of Europe with the exception of some in the UK press) with talk of Banking Unions and, dare I even utter the word as a Brit,"federation". We even felt moved to produce an 'occasional' paper for the event, which you can find here on our website. One part of this paper is...
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Barroso’s 3rd State of the (European) Union
September 12, 2012
Fleishman-Hillard Brussels offers an analysis of today's State of the (European) Union speech by European Commission President Barroso at the European Parliament. With calls for a treaty change to move the European Union towards a "federation of nation states" and concrete proposals on a European banking supervision, the speech seeks to address both the current economic and financial crisis as well as what the Commission President terms as a political crisis...
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Fleishman-Hillard Brussels Makes Senior Hire in Financial Services
September 3, 2012
Brussels, 4 September 2012 - International communications consultancy Fleishman-Hillard has appointed Martin Bresson as Senior Policy Adviser to the firm’s financial services practice. Martin Bresson joined Fleishman-Hillard as Senior Policy Adviser on 3 September from the Permanent Representation of Denmark to the EU. Bresson served as Counsellor on financial services during the Danish Presidency of the EU. From 2003 to 2011, he was Head of Division at the Danish Ministry of Business and Economics. He...
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A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water
August 31, 2012
Exactly a year ago today, I arrived in Brussels, apprehensive, hesitant but most of all excited about beginning an internship for one of the world’s largest communications agencies. It is true to say that in the early days I had officially landed in hot water; new job, new country and ridiculously high heels on the infamous Brussels’ cobble stones, my first few days at Fleishman-Hillard are probably better described as a balancing act. However, things...
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Five transformative years for Europe
July 26, 2012
At last the sun is shining, after months of rain. London gears up for the Olympics and is thronged with visitors. Brussels is quiet, Paris is empty. The roads to the south are crowded. The mountains and the beaches beckon. It must be the summer holidays. But not for those politicians and officials across Europe struggling with the latest phase of the eurozone crisis, nor for all those individuals whose lives have been turned upside...