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Why ignoring eHealth is becoming an all too expensive luxury
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Between 13-15 May, Dublin will play host to eHealth Week 2013, a 3 day event jointly organised by the European Commission and the Irish Presidency, bringing together industry partners and providers, as well as important government and regional decisi...
Brands aren’t invented, they’re revealed
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May 1st 2013 marks a watershed moment in FleishmanHillard history as we unveil the next generation of the FleishmanHillard brand. For many, the concept of branding goes largely unnoticed. It merely exists to distinguish competing produc...
Italy: Habemus… governum
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After the attention that the elections of Pope Francis garnered, another wave of excitement has swept across Italy (impacting Italians living abroad like us as much as anyone!) After two months of political stalemate that followed the February genera...
Where does air quality rank on Europe’s bucket list?
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We all kick the bucket. It’s a given together with taxes, as the famous saying goes. Before we do, however, there’s that notorious list of life goals that need to be checked off. With the Barroso Commission departing in October 2014 and t...
Reputation and Public Affairs: inseparable bedfellows
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Gone are the days where Public Affairs took place in a vacuum. Increasingly, the work of PA professionals must be conducted within the prism of an organisation’s or industry’s broader reputation. This was the message of my presentation at...
Italian Elections: Uncertainties Ahead for Italy and Europe
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Last weekend Italy held its general elections and unfortunately the results are very disappointing as they do not guarantee a stable majority. Uncertainty and instability are, therefore, likely to become an inevitable trend in Italian governance over...
An Eerie Silence on Cybersecurity? Not for the EU
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An interesting article popped up in The New York Times (best paper on earth) feed today. Titled “An Eeerie Silence on Cybersecurity,” this editorial takes a look at the reasons so many American companies have been quiet about cyberattacks...
A horse walks into a bar….
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Europe is the heart of gastronomy and fine dining no more, as we’ve been unceremoniously thrown off of our moral high-horse. It’s been an unbridled disaster, as day after day the horsemeat story seems to gain speed and just run and run. S...
Revenge of the acronyms: REVIHAAP and HRAPIE
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As mentioned in last week’s post, clunky terms, and especially acronyms, litter the Eurobubble. Though Spencer was referring to the wonderful world of ILUC, the case is no different when it comes to air quality. Last week, I had the pleasure of...
If Your Biofuel is ‘low-ILUC’ today in Europe, don’t count on it tomorrow
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As renewed EU policy discussion around biofuels kicks in to higher gear in the European Parliament and with Member States, a dominant question revolves around what kind of so-called indirect carbon emissions are produced from different biofuel feedst...
DG Connect pays us a visit
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Yesterday, we welcomed Mr Robert Madelin, Director General of DG Connect, to the FH offices for a high-level roundtable debate. Mr Madelin provided his insights on the mid-term review of the Digital Agenda to around 40 senior executives from a wide r...
Why Davos made me feel like a kid-in-a-candy shop
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Davos is a nirvana for public affairs junkies like me. On arriving, I faced the kid-in-the-candy-shop syndrome: which sweetie jar should I dip into? Aside from the obvious keynotes (David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Dmitri Medvede...
Keep Calm and Carry On…with or without the UK?
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Last week, the UK’s future role in the EU was drawn further into question following Prime Minister David Cameron’s promise to hold a referendum on EU membership should his Conservative party be re-elected in 2015. The outcome of suc...
Trade policy brings Christmas cheer to FH Brussels
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In the week before Christmas we brought together a selection of Brussels’ trade policy community to discuss the EU’s future role and relevance in the in the global trade system. FH Brussels’ Senior Policy Advisor and former Counsellor at the Da...
Thinking about an internship at FH Brussels?
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Since 2006, Fleishman-Hillard in Brussels has undertaken a successful undergraduate internship programme with a range of academic institutions in the UK and Ireland. This 10 month, paid programme is aimed at penultimate year undergraduate students wh...
China’s new dawn
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Back in October Fleishman-Hillard Brussels was delighted to welcome Li Hong, President of Fleishman-Hillard China, to discuss the upcoming leadership transition in China and its impact on business with a handful of Brussels-based public affai...
How an internal procedural change could change codecision
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Politicians, journalists, and members of EU institutions, political scientists, citizens and lobbyists: a small, but important, change happened on November 20th 2012! Few seem to have paid attention to it, despite its far-reaching consequences, but...
I enter, others leave? Typical.
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Is Britain on its bike? There’s nothing like jumping in at the deep end. This week saw me head down to Strasbourg for my first outing as the newly elected Chair of the EU Committee of the British Chamber*. A mere two weeks after getting the job...
The EU Cloud Computing Strategy – what impact on your business?
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As everybody in the “Brussels bubble” knows, in about one and half years, the European Commission’s term will expire and a new set of Commissioners will come to town. One might assume that given this relatively short time frame and the slow pac...
How To Help Europe’s Fisheries – have lots of fish in the sea
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Unsustainable Confusion The reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) brings up some very strange debates. One debate that gets a lot of people excited is about fish ecolabels. There are a lot of ecolabels out there, many of which say that fish...
