Intellectual, principled and frustrating
By Eliza Gray - 22.05.2008 / 00:00 CET
Lobbying the EU institutions has become a crowded business and is not as alluring as some people imagine. European Voice talks to Tony Venables, a pioneer of consumers' rights lobbying.
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