Max Bank, author at Social Europe

Amazon: call to ban its lobbyists backed

Bram Vranken, Oliver Roethig, Margarida Silva and Max Bank

Support is mobilised behind the demand by MEPs that Amazon’s lobbyists be barred from the European Parliament.

How Big Tech money skews the European playing-field

Margarida Silva and Max Bank

Record spending by technology companies lobbying the EU represents a democratic problem.

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