Analyse: Transparence des lobbyistes : "L'Europe doit-elle importer un Petit American Sunshine?"

Steven Billet, chef du personnel de la « Grad School of Political Management » de l’université américaine de Georgetown, souligne les avantages et les faiblesses du système ouvert du lobbying américain et explique dans quelle mesure ce système pourrait s’appliquer à l’UE. 

Steven Billet, argues that « it would be folly to suggest that the EU regime for transparency in lobbying might work well if it simply imported the principles and particulars developed in the US over the last several decades » due to difference in culture, values and institutional systems. 

The author explains that, on the one hand, « Americans embrace the general notion that the public’s business should be conducted in full sunshine ». On the other hand, he points out that the US system still has weaknesses, despite its lobbying disclosure rules, as recent scandals such as the Abramoff affair demonstrate. 

In this context, Steven Billet differentiates three types of weakness in his article and discusses what the EU can take from all this. 

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