Businesseurope au-delà du « lobbying » : le travail d'intégration européenne d'une organisation patronale

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Businesseurope beyond “Lobbying”: An Employer’s Organization Works towards European Integration The European employers’ union, UNICE/Businesseurope, is not here defined in a priori fashion as a “pressure group” acting on European institutions. Rather, the present article focuses on the work carried out by its personnel in the framework of aid and technical assistance programs for countries that have recently joined the European Union or are candidates for membership. An examination of the organization and content of its training sessions shows how it acts to promote European integration. Its members help employers’ representatives, not only to learn their role, but also to retain it in their country. What is at stake here is the representation of company interests before national governments and seeing to it that Community acquis are respected and implemented. Despite the upheavals to which the process of enlargement has given rise, the European federation welcomes new national employers’ organizations in order to conserve the structure of representation of employer interests before the European Union and the central place it holds in this European space for the representation of interests. ?