Month: October 2020

Comitology update: lead shot and GMOS

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Update On 24 November, the first challenge against the restriction on lead shot was rejected. 292 votes for, 362 votes against 39 abstentions. The track record of files being defeated in Committee and coming back again in the plenary is not a good one.   ____________________________________________________________   Today, 29 October, was a busy day for … Read more

Does Sweden’s industrial Baltic Sea fleet cost or contribute to the Swedish taxpayer

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I have just looked through a new report from Baltic Sea 2020 (link). They looked at how much the large scale Baltic sea fisheries brought into the Swedish government’s finance ministry. The numbers will sober up the most interventionist fishing minister.   English Summary Summary of government finance costs and revenues from large-scale Baltic fisheries, … Read more

Steven Kotler teaches the key skills any lobbyist needs

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  If you are a lobbyist you need passion, perseverance, and grit. These are key skills that you can pick up. You can learn them.  Steven Kotler’s course at MindValley, ‘The Habit of Ferocity’, is not a course explicitly designed for lobbyists, but it may as well have been.  Kotler goes through the skills you … Read more

Is Europe going to switch from risk based regulation?

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If you are serious about understanding chemical regulation, you’ll read Cass Sunstein’s ‘Risk and Reason: Safety, Environment and the Law’ (link). For reasons unclear to me, Cass Sunstein is not known by many risk regulators in Europe. That is a shame. They’d learn a lot from reading him. He is more informative than a tweet. … Read more