Daniel Guéguen

Daniel Guéguen

Daniel Guéguen is founder and chairman of PACT European Affairs and vice president of Europolitics. In 1996 he founded CLAN Public Affairs and the European Training Institute and before this, Daniel was Director General for the European Sugar Industry and secretary general of COPA-CO-GECA, the EU farmers’ union lobby. Daniel Guéguen is visiting professor at the College of Europe in Brugge as well as at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of 15 books, which have been translated into 20 languages. New publications currently available are: Handbook on Secondary Legislation (2012) and Reshaping European Lobbying (2013).

Post-truth and European lobbying

In a time when distorting reality and presenting subjective data as objective fact is becoming a new tool of influence, experts in the field of European lobbying must assert themselves as objective and credible.

Daniel Guéguen

Posted: 14 February 2017

Any piece of information can be manipulated. Your social media profile can be altered from any location. Anonymous attacks can do significant and lasting damage to your reputation and the credibility of your businesses. More than ever, the...

The European Union: 20 years in the wrong direction

Post-Brexit, the EU needs to re-build itself from top to bottom

Daniel Guéguen

Posted: 24 June 2016

20 years ago I published “L’Europe à contresens”. This small book made a big impact in the press. Its key message was simple. Starting from the premise that the accession of Sweden, Finland and Austria in 1995 planted the seeds of the European...

Fall from grace

The European Economic and Social Committee: once an institution, now a mere stakeholder

Daniel Guéguen

Posted: 11 March 2016

A century ago – I mean in fact the 1980s and 1990s – the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) was an EU institution with great influence. Closely involved in the initial reforms...

Comitology and delegated acts – all joking aside

Five years on: how to handle the Treaty of Lisbon

Daniel Guéguen, Vicky Marissen

Posted: 19 January 2016

Only one winner and many losers

There are small losers and big losers. The small losers are the Member States. While they have lost the advantage of comitology committees for delegated acts, they maintain it for...

The Juncker Commission one year on: better regulation?

Have the EU Commission and Parliament performed to expectations? Are we moving towards ‘better regulation’, or more opacity and complexity?

Daniel Guéguen

Posted: 06 January 2016

You will remember that Jean-Claude Juncker based his election as head of the European Commission on an idea and a promise. The idea was to present the future College of Commissioners as...