Regulation of 'Foreign' Lobbying in the EU: Mission Impossible?, Doris Dialer
Résumé : Lobbying and foreign influence are normal, integrated activities in EU policy formulation and decision-making. Moreover, the EU’s openness towards lobbying is central to the legitimacy of its law-making. However, the EU is facing a rapidly changing international order that affects not only its global role but also the ways in which it interacts with the possible undue influence of third countries. As a consequence, the EU has been enhancing the transparency of foreign ‘influence’ by broadening the scope of the Transparency Register, a public EU lobby database jointly managed by the three law-making institutions. This paper aims to show that the tension between the functional need for openness to the lobbying of third states and the necessity for regulation is likely to become more important in the years to come.