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Author: Corporate Marketing
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The Cybersecurity directive vs. “Less and better regulation”?
December 3, 2015
Will EU Institutions next Monday (7 December), as it gives birth to a network and information security (NIS) directive, run the risk of fragmentation and adding more red tape in an effort to help build minimum resilience capabilities and common rules for incident reporting? Cybersecurity is a comprehensive concept that encompasses several different dimensions of information security. It spans from consumer education to information sharing and even more complex issues such as critical information infrastructure...
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A circle has no end: The Commission’s second go at the Circular Economy package
December 2, 2015
Here it comes! The European Commission today will publish its long awaited Circular Economy package. If you have been following this saga, you will know that a Circular Economy package first appeared in July 2014, when Commissioner Potočnik led on environmental policy. Soon after however, winds changed in Brussels. The package became a victim of the Better Regulation agenda and was withdrawn with Commission Vice-President Timmermans’ promise to “replace [it] by [a] new, more ambitious...
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Chemicals and Environment Legislative Timeline: Circular Economy and More in 2016
December 2, 2015
FleishmanHillard Brussels’ Chemicals and Environment legislation timeline sets out the major milestones of the European Union’s activities for environmental and chemicals legislation in the next 12 months and beyond. The ‘Circular Economy’ of December 2015 is the Juncker Commission’s first major environmental legislative proposal. The Circular Economy package will shape the direction of European policy on waster, but also on the entire product life-cycle from production to consumption and from waste to the secondary raw material...
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E-commerce: the needle in the DSM haystack?
November 27, 2015
On Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, Catherine Armitage takes a look at e-commerce in the EU and asks, is online shopping the key to the Digital Single Market? Today is Black Friday – the biggest day in the e-commerce calendar. It started out as an American phenomenon, marking the busiest shopping day of the year (falling on the day after Thanksgiving) and signalling the start of the Christmas shopping period. However, over...
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State of the Energy Union: FH Outcome and Analysis
November 20, 2015
On 18 November, the European Commission came forward with its first ‘State of the Energy Union’ (SOTEU) report. The report gives an assessment of where Europe is in terms of achieving the objectives laid out in the Energy Union Strategy of February 2015 and outlines the legislative proposals for 2016. In this analysis, the FH Energy team gives its assessment of how the EU is performing in each of the Energy Union’s five dimensions. Adopting a...
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Establishing Your EU Public Affairs Presence
November 19, 2015
On 3 December James Stevens will appear at the Public Affairs Council as part of a webinar to assist companies and organisations seeking to open a European public affairs presence. James will share his insights into the culture and capabilities that an organisation requires to succeed in the EU environment. James has provided government relations and public affairs counsel to corporations and trade bodies at a European level for over a decade. A Senior Partner at FleishmanHillard in...
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Digital Single Market: Coming Your Way In The Next Year
November 18, 2015
The ‘Digital Single Market’ is one of the Juncker Commission’s flagship initiatives, launched amid much anticipation back in May this year. Over the past 6 months, the Commission has been moving forward at an accelerated pace on a wide range of initiatives, consultations and legislation. FleishmanHillard has put together a Digital Single Market Timeline which lays out exactly what’s coming up over the next year on the Digital Single Market, covering a wide range of issues...
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Digital Single Market – in like a lion out like a lamb?
November 13, 2015
The Digital Single Market needs no introduction when talking to people in Brussels. It is one of the Juncker Commission’s flagship initiatives, launched amid much anticipation back in May this year. The ‘DSM’ strategy announced a range of measures and ideas to improve access to online goods and services and help them ‘flourish’, and ‘maximise the growth potential’ of the Digital Economy in Europe. What does that mean exactly? Well, beyond the Commission-speak, it’s pretty...
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When does it make sense to go visual in EU public affairs?
November 9, 2015
“There are a lot of great tools and channels to play with when it comes to creating and sharing visuals. That doesn’t mean you have to use them all.” That was the message EurActiv's incredibly talented Multimedia Director Evan Lamos kicked off with at an October event in the second-yellowest room of the Brussels media mainstay’s HQ. I was more than happy to follow that act. Visuals should do stuff Effective communications and public affairs...
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A viewpoint from a digital native – the Digital Single Market
November 6, 2015
My first weeks as an intern in the technology team at FleishmanHillard have been a whirlwind, to say the least. As a Politics and Law student, I am very passionate about the work that me and my team do, and this has been the best educational experience for me so far. For instance, I have become very interested in the Digital Single Market (DSM) and in issues such as data protection. The hot topic on...