Elisa Braun

1 week ago | politico.eu | Elisa Braun

A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By ELISA BRAUNTips, tales, traumas to @elisabraun or [email protected] | View in your browserBONJOUR. In Brussels, we meet people who whisper to the ears of policymakers every day. Reporters and researchers write about them, trying to understand what works, and what doesn’t, and why.

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Elisa Braun

A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By ELISA BRAUNTips, tales, traumas to @elisabraun or | View in your browserBONJOUR. In recent years, France has worked hard to combat the stereotype that misuse of taxpayer money — for example, to pay family, friends and political allies for fake jobs — is as French as red wine or going on strike. But how about using the public purse to hire a private detective to spy on a colleague?

2 weeks ago | shorturl.at | Elisa Braun

A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By ELISA BRAUNTips, tales, traumas to @elisabraun or [email protected] | View in your browserBONJOUR. In recent years, France has worked hard to combat the stereotype that misuse of taxpayer money — for example, to pay family, friends and political allies for fake jobs — is as French as red wine or going on strike. But how about using the public purse to hire a private detective to spy on a colleague?

2 weeks ago | politico.eu | Elisa Braun

BRUSSELS — One of Huawei’s most senior executives in Europe is a suspect in the Belgian investigation into alleged corruption at the European Parliament benefitting the Chinese technology company, POLITICO can reveal. The senior executive was represented in a Belgian court on Tuesday, documents relating to the hearing showed.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Elisa Braun

A weekly newsletter on campaigning, lobbying and political influence in the EU. By ELISA BRAUNTips, tales, traumas to @elisabraun or [email protected] | View in your browserBONJOUR. I’m writing to you today from the grand, if slightly decaying, hall of Brussels’ Palais de Justice. There’s a lot in the air here — stress, hope, anger and a dash of journalistic adrenaline — a messy human mix as imposing as the Corinthian columns holding up the building.