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The Brussels Business

The Brussels Business

★ 6.62012Movie1 h 25 mBelgium

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THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.

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The Brussels Business

2012

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1 h 25 m

Belgium

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THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.

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Catherine Ashton

Self - European Union Trade Commissioner (2008-2009)

Leon Brittan

Self - European Commissioner for Trade (1993-1999)

Maria Green Cowles

Self - Political Scholar, American University, Washington

Olivier Hoedeman

Self - activist, Corporate Europe Observatory

Craig Holman

Self - lobby consultant, Public Citizen, Washington

Siim Kallas

Self - vice-president of the European Commission

Pascal Kerneis

Self - lobbyist, European Services Forum

Christoffer Taxell

Self - Finnish politician

Erik Wesselius

Self - activist, Corporate Europe Observatory

User Review

josy

29/05/2023 17:19

source: The Brussels Business

kyline alcantara

22/11/2022 12:15

Long shots of pages of documents with single words in focus and the rest left blurry might have some artistic impact, but as a documentary this movie fails. The effect of the dramatic music while zooming in and out of said documents only adds a smile on my face and never the desired shroud on my back. The information it provides could have been fitted in a 30 min feature. Trying to fill 90 minutes was a bad idea. Others than that, the information it provides is educating, but nothing more than what an educated man would suspect. No scandals uncovered, but a biased not fact based view on the lobbyist culture in Europe. Too often you hear sentences like 'we saw the documents and they reveal the huge influence of industry into politics' - but you do not get shown said documents, there are no citations, only some shots of who send them and who received them. I would not recommend to view this in a class in school as it does not provide enough material and especially not enough facts to discuss it.

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22/11/2022 03:38

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User Review

josy

29/05/2023 17:19

source: The Brussels Business

kyline alcantara

22/11/2022 12:15

Long shots of pages of documents with single words in focus and the rest left blurry might have some artistic impact, but as a documentary this movie fails. The effect of the dramatic music while zooming in and out of said documents only adds a smile on my face and never the desired shroud on my back. The information it provides could have been fitted in a 30 min feature. Trying to fill 90 minutes was a bad idea. Others than that, the information it provides is educating, but nothing more than what an educated man would suspect. No scandals uncovered, but a biased not fact based view on the lobbyist culture in Europe. Too often you hear sentences like 'we saw the documents and they reveal the huge influence of industry into politics' - but you do not get shown said documents, there are no citations, only some shots of who send them and who received them. I would not recommend to view this in a class in school as it does not provide enough material and especially not enough facts to discuss it.

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22/11/2022 03:38

The Brussels Business

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