Almost as though they noticed that there is a war going on in Europe. To their credit, the little being lobbied took a year and a half longer to notice, demonstrating their resistance to these influence efforts
Three items to mention:
1. We shouldn't expect that European defense companies don't get into action when defense budgets, as we wanted, get expanded
2. By law, they have to register lobbying efforts with the EU transparancy register
3. Let's do this for US defense companies that lobby EU & US gov
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They are working on all sorts of innovation it's not all demand led...
1. We shouldn't expect that European defense companies don't get into action when defense budgets, as we wanted, get expanded
2. By law, they have to register lobbying efforts with the EU transparancy register
3. Let's do this for US defense companies that lobby EU & US gov