Political interference
Political interference, or lobbying, is Big Alcohol’s activity to eliminate or minimize any alcohol policy effort that would threaten sales and profits. The focus of this Dubious 5 strategy is the decision-makers and opinion leaders with the power to shape and decide alcohol policy decisions. Tactics of political interference are delay, derail, or even destroy alcohol policy initiatives, and to divide coalitions supporting alcohol policy initiatives. Big Alcohol is paying lobbyists and lobby front groups to interfere in public health policy making around the world.
Latest cases of Political interference
AB InBev Big Alcohol Lobbying Exposed: Beer Giant Is Second Biggest Political Donor in Colombia
Investigative reporting by independent publication La Silla Vacía reveals the money the alcohol industry pumps into political parties. AB ...
German Wine Lobby Exposed: Political Interference, Deception, and Harmful Claims
Who is Big Wine in Germany and what are they up to? Lobbypedia has released a report about the German wine lobby, exposing how the wine ...
Master Manipulators: Exposing Big Alcohol Lobbying in Scottish and British Parliaments
For the fourth episode in the third season of the Alcohol Issues Podcast we discuss and expose the “master manipulators”. In ...
EU Commission’s World Cancer Day Event Highlights Importance of Tackling Alcohol as Serious Carcinogen
Changing the realities of cancer is one of the main priorities of the European Commission in the health domain. Three years after the ...
AB InBev Novel Insights Into Big Alcohol’s Lobbying Footprint in the United States
This study shows how comparing the lobbying practices of different health harmful industry, including Big Alcohol, offers a deeper ...
Spirits Spain Collaboration Concerns: Córdoba City Council and Spirits Spain tackle alcohol prevention
City Council of Córdoba has signed a collaboration agreement with Spirits Spain to “prevent alcohol consumption in minors and ...
22 Case Stories of Big Alcohol Misconduct in 2023
In 2023, Movendi International published more than 290 stories on our Alcohol Issues News Center, covering alcohol policy and scientific ...
UK: Big Alcohol Pressures Government to Cut Alcohol Taxes
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has frozen the alcohol duty in the Autumn Statement, delivering a gift to the alcohol industry ...
UK: Big Alcohol Earns £11bn From Higher Risk Alcohol Use Yearly, Government Action Needed
43.4% of all revenue the alcohol industry earns in the UK comes from higher risk alcohol consumption – i.e. alcohol intake exceeding ...