Aaron

Don’t shoot from the hip

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President Carter’s Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordon, was infamous for shooting from the hip. It harmed the Carter Presidency. Early on in Brussels, I learned never to shoot from the hip. I spent months re-launching a report for a client that had been shot down by the Commission. It was politically dead on arrival. The … Read more

21 things to do when you know a proposal is coming.

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  Last week I learned the Commission is going to re-open a sacred cow piece of legislation. Here is a checklist on what I would advise anyone to do when they know their political, policy or regulatory world is going to be thrown up in the air. Get ready. Denial is not a strategy. Mirror … Read more

A checklist for dealing with Cabinet officials

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There are a lot of proposals going through inter-service consultation at the moment.  Most of them will never make it to the College’s agenda. They are agreed to by the Services and the Cabinets by way of written procedure. So, if you want to influence what comes out the door, you are going to have … Read more

Some personal thoughts on the EU’s Cancer Strategy.

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Several weeks ago I went to a talk from the Commission about their Cancer Strategy.

I gave my apologies to the organiser and left early. The Commission’s representative contribution was so lamentable that I considered if this was the best the Commission could do, it would be better if they did nothing at all.

The Commission’s launched its Public Consultation on their ‘Cancer Beating Plan’ (link).

As someone who knows way too much about cancer from personal experience, and likes Better Regulation, I thought it right to share my thoughts. You can find them here and below.

 

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