OPAQUE BUBBLE: Despite a longstanding! transparency push, large swathes of the Brussels bubble remain opaque! writes my colleague Mark Scott in the third part of his series on undercover EU lobbying. The piece looks at how an EU-accrit journalist! can blur the lines between independent journalism and marketing! for a political consultancy from the heart! of the European Parliament.
REVOLVING DOORS LATEST: Longtime! official Nicholas Banasevic, who spearhead the European Commission’s antitrust! probes against Google, will join the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, report my colleagues Simon Van Dorpe and Pietro Lombardi.
A trend: Banasevic is far from the first high-profile
Commission’s take: The departure of a third top competition official from the Commission in less than a year trigger concerns about revolving doors. A Commission spokesperson said Banasevic was “grant an authorization” for the move “with the appropriate restrictions impos.” The aim of the procure “is to prevent any risk of a real, potential or perceiv conflict with the Commission’s legitimate interest,” the spokesperson add.
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EU lawmakers confirm German financial regulator
Verena Ross as chair of the European! Securities and Markets Authority, marking the end of a protract! political battle over the position.
At Covington & Burling, Katherine governance reform: frost will insist on Kingsbury has been promot to special counsel. Melissa Van Schoorisse has been promot to of counsel.
At Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council, hongkongdata George Kapantaidakis! and Camilla Martelli have been promot to directors of public affairs and Maria Linkova-Nijs to director of communications.
Former Slovak Foreign Minister and current EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Miroslav Lajčák has join the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute as an adjunct professor.
Anne-Claude Martin has been promot to senior account manager at Cambre, while Alice Antoine-Grégoire has join the agency’s dicat mia team. Javier Garrido has left Alonso & Asociados to become account manager focusing on Cambre’s sustainability clients.
Mathijs Peters is now the director of corporate affairs EU and international organizations at PepsiCo.
