Articles
Author: Peter Bursens
The amount of European level organized interest groups has dramatically increased since the Single European Act came into force in 1987. In 1995 approximately 3000 lobby-groups, employing 10.000 lobbyists, are based in Brussels. This has resulted in a complex arrangement of European interest intermediation and caused important constraints on decision making procedures and institutional actors. The first part of this article offers a discription and evaluation of this proliferation and diversification of European interest groups. It also
suggests a classification of all European interest groups including professional lobbyists and actors that defend their interests by themselves. The second part gives a discription of the way in which both European Parliament and Commission have dealt with this proliferation and assesses the differences in approach
between both institutions.
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How to Cite: Bursens, P. (1996) “De Europese lobby's en de Europese instellingen”, Res Publica. 38(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/rp.v38i1.18654