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The Best Influence Money Can Buy

Author: 
Helen Burley and Oliver Hoedemann (Corporate Europe Observatory), First published in the New Internationalist
Originally published: 
January 2011

Getting politicians to bend policy to your company’s will is a fine art – requiring a combination of charm, dogged persistence, threats and bushels of cash. But corporate lobbyists know just which buttons to press in order to get politicians to stuff human rights, public health and the dear old environment – and put business interests first.

Much as they shrink from the limelight, we feel they deserve a bit of exposure. So here’s why we think these 10 lobby groups have earned their place in the hall of shame.

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