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Year: 2016

  • #SOTEU 2016 – More of the same?

    September 15, 2016

    #SOTEU 2016 – More of the same?   In his annual address to the European Parliament on 14 September, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attempted the delicate exercise of mitigating Europeans’ expectations on the role of the Commission in finding solutions to Europe’s structural problems while re-assuring his audience that he holds the key to these challenges. Did he succeed? The jury is still out... Similarly to last year, he did not address a full house...

  • Playing #SOTEU – FleishmanHillard 2016 edition

    September 13, 2016

    Remember,  how last year we played a little game to follow Dr Juncker’s sensitive operations on patient Europe. The patient barely made through all the critical surgery, and it feels the last twelve months have been a painful and endless convalescence, with life threatening relapses. As President Juncker will take the floor in front of Members of the European Parliament to deliver his second speech on the State Of the European Union (the now famous...

  • FleishmanHillard Hosts MEP Julia Reda for Roundtable on Copyright Reforms – 30 September

    September 13, 2016

    FleishmanHillard will be hosting German Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda for a discussion on copyright reforms on Friday 30 September, organised in partnership with the European Tech Alliance. The Greens/EFA Vice President has become well known for her strong views on copyright. These have been reflected in her report last year as rapporteur on the review of the Copyright Directive. The European Tech Alliance is group of fast-growing tech companies that have been built in Europe. They believe...

  • Europe’s Back to School: EU Politics and Policy Sept-Dec 2016

    September 9, 2016

    FleishmanHillard is happy to share our latest cross-sector briefing “Europe’s Back to School” – looking at the macro-political trends defining Europe’s agenda and breaking down the sector specific issues shaping tech, energy, financial services, manufacturing & industrials, healthcare and food & agriculture. This briefing shows the scale of what is expected in the coming months – and includes key policy timelines for every sector   FleishmanHillard Back to School Sept 2016...

  • Winning over your EU policy niche, one LinkedIn post at a time

    September 6, 2016

    If everyone in the world is separated by six degrees, then everyone in the Brussels bubble is separated by one… on LinkedIn. Let's talk EU policy niches. The Brussels bubble is small and its policy communities are even smaller. Mapping out the communities you are part of (or want to be part of) is Public Affairs 101. The need to build trust and credibility within your specific niche is priority one if your goal is to ultimately move the...

  • FleishmanHillard EU Managing Director to speak at ICCO Global PR Summit

    September 5, 2016

    Caroline Wunnerlich, Managing Director of FleishmanHillard EU, will speak at the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) Global PR Summit in Oxford, taking place September 29-30. The Global ICCO PR Summit brings together senior practitioners from public relations consultancies around the world. We are very excited to bring the Summit to Oxford, a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research, made famous by the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford University. The theme for the Summit...

  • FleishmanHillard EU welcomes its new undergraduate interns

    September 5, 2016

    Last week FleishmanHillard EU welcomed our new undergraduate interns, who will work and learn with us between now and next June. In its tenth year, our undergraduate program gives third year students of politics and EU affairs the opportunity to undergo a paid traineeship working first hand around Europe's institutions. Our program has had over 40 interns pass through it already, with many returning to FH to work full time. We wish our trainees the...

  • Learning from the Americans that to fight terrorism is welcome, tampering with encryption is not!

    September 5, 2016

    Governments in France and Germany have announced joint efforts to kick-off a global initiative to root out terrorists using instant messaging services. The Interior Minister of France, in reaction to a recent spate of horrific acts of terror including the murder of a French priest, announced a global need to intercept messages from terrorists using mainstream social media and encrypted services. Both governments on the 24th August will propose a system to force companies to...

  • FleishmanHillard to speak at WindEurope Summit Hamburg

    August 31, 2016

    At the annual meeting of the European wind energy industry in Hamburg 27-29 September, the director of FleishmanHillard's energy team Matt Hinde will discuss the implications of Brexit on the wind industry. As former Head of EU Strategy with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change Matt is ideally placed to offer insight into the impact of the transition to a post-Brexit EU. Find details of the panel here, and register for the conference here...

  • Creating consumer confusion – the dilemma of online, offline, and digital returns

    August 30, 2016

    Way back in November 2014, President Juncker gallantly informed Vice-President Ansip that he must modernise and simplify consumer rules for online and digital purchases. However, current legislative developments could create an unappealing shopping environment for consumers, and suppliers, as they tackle divergent rules for tangible and digital goods, confusion over rights for goods bought online or offline, and differing warranty periods for different parts of a product. These developments are particularly worrying given that online...

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