The Good Lobby
Description
The Good Lobby works to make advocacy more accessible and lobbying more transparent, ethical and sustainable. It envisions a society where power is accessible to all and where advocacy is driven by transparency and the common good. It advocates generally for a more accessible, transparent, accountable and responsible lobbying environment.
Its work serves civil society organizations, and corporate and other actors that wish to lobby responsibly. This work is organized around three activities. Consulting provides strategic advice on advocacy, integrity and responsible stakeholder engagement, and includes in-depth research. Research produces studies in its areas of expertise, and advocacy training equips individuals and organizations with the skills and knowledge needed to effect change.
Alongside these core activities, The Good Lobby runs a range of initiatives addressing specific challenges in the lobbying and advocacy field. These include a Deregulation Monitor, a Summer Academy, an Impact Under Stress programme, a Decarb Lobbying initiative, and a business associations initiative called Rebase. They also include a Future Generations Initiative, a Good Lobby Diagnostic and Tracker, a Good Lobby Profs network, an EU Masterclass, and an EU Far-Right Tracker that follows political alignment in the European Parliament.
It also produces a podcast called Citizen Lobbyist, and publishes guides and other resources on citizen lobbying, engaging with the far right, and EU elections. The organization has offices in Brussels, Milan, Paris and Tokyo. Its Brussels office is registered on the EU Transparency Register.
Latest news
Spain’s first lobbying regulation lasted less than three weeks
24/09/2026 In late August, Spain took a real step toward lobbying transparency. On Tuesday 25 August, the Council of Ministers, not the Parliament, approved Royal Decree-Law 21/2026, regulating the transparency and integrity of lobbying activity. It was published in the official state gazette...
24 Sep 2026
When did we forget the true meaning of Democracy?
22/09/2026 As children, we are taught some of the basic principles of living together: to listen to others, respect different opinions, take turns, play fair and speak up when something feels wrong. We learn these values because they help us live together as a community. But somewhere between...
22 Sep 2026
Future Generations: The EU Moves, the UN Stalls
21/09/2026 It will soon be three years since The Good Lobby launched the Future Generations Initiative alongside a coalition of civil society organisations. Our ask was simple and, at the time, ambitious: the creation of a Commissioner responsible for intergenerational fairness, the development...
21 Sep 2026
On Ceuta, the EPP voted with the far right, again
18/09/2026 On 17 September 2026, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the Ceuta migration crisis by 339 votes to 225, with 16 abstentions. The text tabled by the centre-right European People’s Party, and blamaing the Spanish govenelt’migrant regularisation policy for the crisis...
18 Sep 2026
Anthropic Is Profiling the Activists Trying to Stop AI
16/09/2026 Anthropic has spent the last few years positioning itself as the AI industry’s conscience, the lab willing to slow down – as reiterated this week, say no to the Pentagon, and warn the world about the risks of the technology it is racing to build. Yet now new media reporting shows the...
16 Sep 2026
What’s State of the Union for Civil Society?
15/09/2026 Like every September, EU Commission President will announce the agenda for the year ahead during the State of the Union. As interest groups, including NGOs, strive to get their wish list mentioned in that speech, the question remains whether that inclusion makes any difference. In her...
15 Sep 2026
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