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Event: Transatlantic Energy Futures
On 7 March 2012 Fleishman-Hillard Brussels will be hosting the book launch of ‘Transatlantic Energy− Strategic Perspectives on Energy Security, Climate Change and New Technologies in Europe and the United States’, in presence of its editor David Koranyi, Non-Resident Fellow …Read Post
EMEA Public Affairs Consultancy of Year
The Holmes Report has named Fleishman-Hillard as Public Affairs Consultancy of the Year in its annual Europe, Middle East and Africa awards announced on 6 February 2012. The award recognizes the leadership of Caroline Wunnerlich and her Brussels team in …Read Post
Efficiency, renewables and fossil fuels – What’s the right energy for Europe?
On 25 January Fleishman-Hillard Brussels organised a roundtable discussion on the future of the EU energy mix, with a particular emphasis on the role that energy efficiency could play in this context. A discussion paper laying down the terms of the …Read Post
Event: What’s the Right Energy for Europe?
Fleishman-Hillard Brussels hosts a luncheon roundtable on ‘Efficiency, renewables and fossil fuels – what’s the right energy for Europe?’ in Brussels on Wednesday 25 January 2012. Ms. Dagmara Koska, Member of the Cabinet for European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger and …Read Post
2011: A Year in Review
2011 has been a year of political turbulence in the European Union and around the world. Ilana Bet-El, Senior Policy Advisor at Fleishman-Hillard Brussels, takes a look back at the major geopolitical developments of the last twelve months, a year …Read Post
2011: A Year in Review
2011 has been a year of political turbulence in the European Union and around the world. Ilana Bet-El, Senior Policy Advisor at Fleishman-Hillard Brussels, takes a look back at the major geopolitical developments of the last twelve months, a year …Read Post
Everyone a Loser in Ukraine-Russia Dispute – Except EU Energy Policy
The gas is flowing again. The deal signed between Ukraine’s prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow on January 21 should at last provide some respite for all those who have suffered severe hardship from the suspension of gas supplier in recent weeks.
In the short term everyone has been a loser from [...] Read Post
Russia – Ukraine Gas Dispute: Business or Politics?
Is it business or politics? The official EU line is that the confrontation between Russia and the Ukraine on gas supplies is a commercial dispute which does not call for political intervention. This is far removed from the accusations of “pipeline politics” directed at Russia during the 2006 dispute.
Requests by the parties for the EU [...] Read Post
Council Scuppers Transfer of Telecoms Power to Brussels
It seems that any major transfer of power from the national level to the European Commission for EU telecoms regulation has been scuppered by the Council of Ministers.
Commissioner Reding had threatened ten days ago to withdraw Commission proposals if ministers refused to go along with them, but the Council’s political agreement on November 27 was [...] Read Post
Reding Plays Hardball Over Telecoms Regulation
So Commissioner Viviane Reding has decided to play hardball over telecoms reform. Some weeks ago we discussed how the Commission’s proposed telecoms package would hand over extensive new powers to Brussels.
The European Parliament watered down these proposals in first reading, but it seems that the revised version to be sent to the Council gives little [...] Read Post
