Using Market Opportunities and Competitive Advantages
Today, 80% of economic legislation comes from Brussels. The European Union keeps covering more and more areas of politics. The decision-making processes are complex and multi-layered and are influenced by specific national market situations, different corporate philosophies and diverging political interests. Each company, association, organization and government is affected by this. We support you in positioning yourself successfully in this area of tension, in using opportunities and avoiding pitfalls. This will also enable you to profit economically from these complex interactions.In order to formulate issues and ensure their success, you need proven expertise, high-quality information and a precise analysis. We offer you this foundation. In doing so, we help you define your own goals and work with you in developing a clear strategy. Then we turn this into a convincing message geared towards your specific partner – national or international, in science or politics. Thus we initiate a permanent and constructive dialog that shows possible solutions and integrates the goals of the political decision-makers.
A clear win-win situation for both sides.
Our Services
Identifying EU issues that are relevant to your company or organisation.
- Matching activities, product ranges and the interests of your company or organisation to existing and planned future policies and legislation.
- Producing a political SWOT analysis.
- Identifying reference groups and producing a ‘friends-and-foes’ matrix.
- Defining the need for action and producing a ‘roadmap’ to establish the successful protection of interests.
>Monitoring EU publications and procedures, discussions with important think tanks, activities of opinion-leaders, NGOs, industry and business, as well as the press on specific issues.
- Reliable early warning system as soon as critical content and subjects arise.
- Sounding out the European environment, bundling and analysis of key information and customised preparation.
Conveying a clear idea of what ‘Brussels’ thinks in order to proactively observe and successfully implement the issues that have been identified.
- Elaborating and prioritising the key issues that are of interest to your company or organisation with the European Institutions.
- In-depth analyses: what is the opinion of the Commission, Member States and Parliament on specific issues?
- ‘Friends & foes’ matrix: who has an interest in the issue, what is their opinion, who is in the majority?
Efficient communication and assertion of your specific interests.
- In-depth analysis and ongoing updating of positions and scenarios for all those involved in the process and expected schedules.
- Producing a targeted and efficient strategy to implement the matters identified.
- Including all of the important specialist and political contacts at the European Parliament, Commission, the representatives of Member States and other integrated Institutions and agencies.
- Prioritisation over time and matching the strategy to the existing process.
- Producing tailor-made position papers that are suitable for Europe and adapting them to different contacts and the course of the process.
- Coordinating all those involved and securing wide-ranging support by alliance building.
Tailor-made political support for European trade procedures, trade defence measures such as anti-dumping or anti-subsidy case representation, including the political and economic interests of all the relevant decision-makers and industry participants.
- Strengthening the legal evidence gathering through targeted political intervention and communication support.
- Addressing important political decision-makers and organisations in a targeted manner.
- Integration of opinion-leaders, NGOs and the public at large into the communications.
Targeted discovery of interesting business opportunities – comprehensive support from submitting a project, to its dissemination and marketing.
- Continuous screening and analysis of the European subsidy environment.
- Support for the preparation and submission of projects and finding suitable project partners – which substantially improves the chances of success!
- Supporting the dissemination and marketing of projects with the institutions, industry and interested third parties.
Forming strategic alliances to assert your interests in the best possible manner.
- Cross-national alliances: setting up alliances in the European Member States to find the majority for EU Council decisions.
- Multi-level alliances: initiating, bundling and coordinating alliances of companies, NGOs, national and international associations etc. to implement the issues identified in a powerful manner.
- Party alliances: finding and supporting coalitions in the European Parliament beyond the limitations of each fraction in order to implement targeted issues.
Subject-matter and communications support during negotiations and the closing of business transactions.
- Preparatory assessment and study, as well as evaluation of business opportunities
- Communications and legal support in initiating, negotiating, agreeing on and closing business deals.
- Approaching and coordinating communications with important political decision makers and government agencies.