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EU Parliament threatens wider ban on lobbyists as Amazon spat deepens (www.politico.eu)
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[โ€“] TheMightyCat@ani.social 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Threatens? Why is lobbying allowed in the first place?

[โ€“] Humanius@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lobbying in itself is not the problem. Potential corruption and bribery are the problem.

Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests and/or concerns to their representatives.
That group could be a group of individuals or a business. A business lobbying the government could be as innocent as them informing the government that proposed legislation would make their business uncompetitive, leading to a potential loss of jobs and/or tax revenue.

That said.. I don't particularly trust that Amazon's lobbying efforts are all that innocent

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lobbying is a group of people coming together to voice their interests

But in practice, it rarely happens without shady "deals" full of bribery and coercion.

[โ€“] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Has anywhere figured out how solve the more money = more effective lobbying problem?

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

IMHO it is equal to solving the bribery problem.

[โ€“] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Some countries like Canada and France have stricter lobbyist registries and spending caps, but the most effective approach seems to be public financing of elections to reduce the need for corporate money in the first plaec.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

id really like to make a separate forum which only allows โ€œeu does a thingโ€ im a bit over reading about things that might happen