EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - PR spin on the Russia-Georgia war and EU official Fritz-Harald Wenig - caught selling trade secrets in a Sunday Times sting - are among candidates for the "Worst EU Lobbying" award in 2008. The competition - run by four pro-transparency NGOs including Corporate Europe Observatory and Friends of the Earth Europe - opened online voting on Monday (20 October) and plans to give out the satirical gongs at a ceremony in Brussels on 9 December. The satirical awards cause annoyance and mirth in Brussels PR firms G-Plus and Aspect Consulting are named in the main "Worst Lobbying" category for their part in the 7 August to 12 August Russia-Georgia war. The NGOs say that G-Plus, acting for the Kremlin, regurgitated to Western media official Russian claims that the Russian army was not conducting operations on Georgian territory and that the Georgian side had killed thousands of civilians in South Ossetia.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - PR spin on the Russia-Georgia war and EU official Fritz-Harald Wenig - caught selling trade secrets in a Sunday Times sting - are among candidates for the "Worst EU Lobbying" award in 2008.
The competition - run by four pro-transparency NGOs including Corporate Europe Observatory and Friends of the Earth Europe - opened online voting on Monday (20 October) and plans to give out the satirical gongs at a ceremony in Brussels on 9 December.
The satirical awards cause annoyance and mirth in Brussels
PR firms G-Plus and Aspect Consulting are named in the main "Worst Lobbying" category for their part in the 7 August to 12 August Russia-Georgia war.
The NGOs say that G-Plus, acting for the Kremlin, regurgitated to Western media official Russian claims that the Russian army was not conducting operations on Georgian territory and that the Georgian side had killed thousands of civilians in South Ossetia.
As for conflict of interest, MEP Klaus-Heiner Lehne has to be it. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
