We act to the highest possible standards of ethics and professionalism. Our relationships with local Embassies and Western governments, as well as with the ex-patriate business community, place upon us a responsibility that we are careful to respect and nurture. We are active locally in promoting ethical business practices, transparency of decision-making and the highest standards for the lobbying industry.
Having lived in the region since 1990, and travelled widely throughout it the 1980s, we are convinced that lobbying is more than just about business - it is also about ideas. We know that foreign investors are often faced with seemingly insuperable challenges to doing sound business in Central Europe: bloated bureaucracies, inexperienced decision-makers, strong vested domestic interests, and ingrained corruption. For this reason, we are driven by a fundamental belief that not only your business success, but also the stability of the region, is dependent on these countries achieving long-term growth through the development of free markets, private property, the rule of law and transparent and honest government.
In this battle of ideas, we pride ourselves in our contacts with local think tanks and universities in the region, Brussels, and the United States, and encourage our clients to engage in the public debates on politics, business and international affairs that will ultimately shape the environment in which their businesses operate. So protecting your immediate interests is not the only priority for us; we work with you to entrench more deeply in the policy process the fundamental principles of governance that will allow you to flourish in the long run.
By building on our contacts with Western businesses and investors, and leveraging our years of experience of working in Central Europe assisting the anticommunist opposition movements of the 1980s, we work with you to secure your business principles, and thereby bring stability and prosperity to the region to the benefit of all. |
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