EU More corruption exposed in the EU Parliament...

[Toby]

.. and ordinary vapers (and e-cig forums) accused of being corporate shills (!) -
Ignore The Public, Listen To MacAvan And Her Pharma Friends

.. as discovered by Lithuanian journal Respublika and - surprise, surprise - involving rapporteur for the TPD (and most dangerous European alive today), the aforementioned Linda MacAvan MEP (Google translate tidied up).

Seeking for the adoption of necessary legal acts as soon as possible, pharmacists found influential politician in Europe and socialist David Harley who worked in the institutions of the European Parliament for more than 30 years and therefore is able to talk to and to discuss with almost all politicians of Brussels and high rank officers.

Harley became a public relations specialist after finishing his career as a eurobureaucrat and started working in the public relations agency “Burson-Marsteller”, Brussels branch, as a senior assistant.

In 2011, “Burson-Marsteller” declared that it received 8,755,000 Euros (30.2 billion Litas) from its clients for lobbying in Brussels. Some of the largest worldwide pharmacy companies, such as “Johnson&Johnson”, “Pfizer”, etc., supplying nicotine replacement products to the market, were among the most generous clients which allocated their funds to lobbying. In 2011, when discussions on the tobacco Products Directive just started these two companies spent almost 2 million Euros (7 million Litas) for the lobbying in Brussels.

Not so long ago, Linda McAvan and Harley were two of the main political figures in the group of socialists of the European Parliament: one served as a vice-president and the other served as a secretary-general. They spent long hours together in meetings, discussions and travels for 12 years since 1998 after McAvan was elected to the European Parliament and to 2010 when D. Harley left politics and started working as a lobbyist.

Is it just a coincidence that today McAvan is active advocate of the interests of the main former colleague’s clients? She not only speaks against tobacco industry but also signed a letter hustling the European Commission to start activities beneficial for pharmacy companies and her signature can be found near the signatures of “Johnson&Johnson”, “Pfizer” and other large manufacturers of nicotine replacement products such as “GlaxoSmithKline”.

 

[gayhalo]

I am just a simple user but wish I had influence.
I would firstly get the EU parliament to take notice of their own legal people who I believe say that e cigs are not tobacco or pharma.
Next I would insist on the people who have a vote to make decisions are free from outside influence.
Neither is easy but this is ment to be OUR parliament not a tool for BT and BP to ensure they make money to the detriment of little people like me.

 

[Borescoped]

Aren't the majority of these EU politicians the same breed that can't run their own countries, and causing their countries to need to get bailed out for past poor decision making?

These folks can't even take care of what they are supposed to take care of, yet they meddle with this?!?

My stupidometer pegs out hard when I see what kind of garbage these people come up with.

/disgusted