120 million euros a year are collected by lobbyists in Brussels –

/ world today news/ The financial industry spends 120 million euros per year on various lobbying activities before the European institutions in Brussels.

This is revealed by the report of the European non-governmental organization Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), entitled “The engine of the financial lobby”. According to calculations, the sector has 1,700 lobbyists in the Belgian capital, which is significantly ahead of all other sectors. The CEO experts used data from various reports on the subject of the British Conservatives, as well as from the Transparency Register, created in 2008 under pressure from MEPs, where lobbying organizations are registered. There you can find 208 legal entities that officially recognize that they are engaged in this activity in the field of financial services.