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Blog: A tiresome search for numbers

BlogpostBy University of Applied Sciences for Mgmt and Comm Vienna, AT March 22, 2019 Leave a comment

A young Austrian politician and candidate for the EU parliament election recently stated that there were between „25.000 and 30.000 lobbyists“ working in Brussels“ spending around 1,15 billion Euros (yearly) in order to influence policies and laws. One would assume that numbers are easy to verify. We thought so as well. However, we got confronted…

Mostly true: „Between 25.000 to 30.000 lobbyists“ are working in Brussels

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy University of Applied Sciences for Mgmt and Comm Vienna, AT March 22, 2019 Leave a comment

In an article on the Viennese online news portal, www.vienna.at, Julia Herr, Austrian Social Democratic Party candidate for the European parliament election, was recently quoted, that there were supposedly „between 25.000 to 30.000 lobbyists“ working in Brussels. According to the article, Herr had made this claim on March 5th, 2019 during a discussion on the…