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THE BRUSSELS PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY LANDSCAPE
Submitted by christian on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 15:35
The EU Transparency Register shows as of 13 March 2013 5,599 Registrants but they are not all based in Brussels. The number of Brussels-based organizations is probably between 4,500 and 5,000. Rather than talking about a total population of 15,000 'lobbyists' it may be more appropriate to talk about 15,000 persons/staff working in the field of public policy advocacy as not all are 'lobbyists' in a professional sense. Actually this figure of 15,000 is probably more in the range of 15,000 to 20,000 taking account activities carried out by non-residents, part-time lobbyists etc.
Number of public policy advocacy groups according to country of origin (Estimates)
- Germany 17.2%
- United Kingdom 13.3%
- France 13.2%
- Belgium 7.8%
- United States 7.8%
- Netherlands 6.9%
- Italy 6.3%
- Spain 3.5%
- Switzerland 3.3%
- Austria 2.7%
- Sweden 2.1%
- Denmark 2.0%
- Poland 1.4%
- Finland 0.9%
- Czech Republic 0.8%
- Portugal 0.7%, Ireland 0.7%
- Slovakia 0.6%, Hungary 0.6%
- Luxembourg 0.5%
- Romania 0.3%
- Greece 0.2%, Latvia 0.2%, Estonia 0.2%
- Slovenia 0.1%, Lithuania 0.1%, Cyprus 0.1%, Malta 0.1%, Bulgaria 0.1%